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Step-by-step guides for the jobs WordPress makes harder than they should be — and the tools that do them for you when you would rather not.
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Gravity Forms does not have a built-in switch that prevents an entry being created immediately. You can delete entries after processing with a hook, u…
WordPress does not include a private support-ticket queue, ticket statuses, assignments or customer reply history. For a few enquiries, use a support…
You can add simple ripples, waves and warps with Slider Revolution’s built-in background transitions. For distortion on individual layers, ongoing eff…
For one or two WordPress sites, you can back up the files with SFTP and the database with phpMyAdmin. Across several sites, central scheduling, logs,…
Track each plugin, theme, hosting, domain and service cost against the sites it affects, then add renewal dates and reminders. A spreadsheet is fine f…
WordPress does not provide branded short links with click analytics by default. You can manually add UTM parameters and create a redirect through your…
There is no universal beta switch for WordPress site-management tools. Create a staging copy, back it up, and use the beta channel supplied by the too…
You can manage a small group of WordPress sites manually with an inventory, update schedule, backups and security checks. For larger portfolios, a cen…
Gravity Forms can capture the submitter’s IP address natively, but it does not turn that address into reliable country, city or coordinate data by its…
You can connect WordPress forms to HubSpot by embedding a HubSpot form, enabling HubSpot’s non-HubSpot form capture, or using a connector that maps su…
For one TikTok video, paste its public URL into WordPress's TikTok block. For a creator profile, use TikTok's official embed code. A live account or h…
What’s in every guide
- The short answerWhat the answer actually is, before any steps. If the honest answer is “you need a plugin”, it says so up top.
- What you needThe prerequisites, so you find out about them now rather than four steps in.
- The stepsIncluding the manual route where one exists, with the parts that make it annoying left in.
- Tools that do this jobEvery product we have covered that solves this task — a list that grows as we cover more.
- SourcesThe documentation each step was checked against, so you can verify it yourself.
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How this works
The job comes first, not the product
A guide is about a task you are trying to finish. Whether a product is involved is a detail, and sometimes the answer is that you do not need one.
The manual route stays in
Where a job can be done without installing anything, we show you how — including why it is irritating. A tutorial that opens with “install this plugin” is an advert.
Guides get better with age
Several products usually do the same job. Rather than publish a page for each, we keep one guide and add each tool as we cover it. The comparison at the bottom keeps growing.