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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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All guides →WordPress can store classified ads as a custom post type, but it does not provide front-end submissions, listing moderation, faceted search, maps or p…
You can build a professional WordPress website without coding or a page-builder plugin. Choose a suitable theme, create focused pages, set your homepa…
You can build a basic service directory with a listing post type, service and location taxonomies, custom fields and an archive page. For front-end su…
You can create an IT startup website in WordPress without custom code by building pages with blocks and editing the site-wide header, footer, colours…
WordPress does not include a front-end content editing form by default. You can build one with a custom plugin using WordPress post functions, capabil…
Gravity Forms does not process payments by itself, so you need a payment gateway add-on such as Stripe, PayPal, Square or Mollie. Add pricing fields,…
You can create custom content displays in WordPress with the native Query Loop block, custom post types, taxonomies, and theme templates. The core rou…
WooCommerce does not provide a general setting for attaching arbitrary files to order emails. You can add a fixed file with the `woocommerce_email_att…
Easy Digital Downloads core can sell software downloads, but it does not provide license activation, expiry, or renewal management. For proper softwar…
WooCommerce handles basic sale prices and coupons, but conditional rules based on quantity, roles, categories or cart totals need a pricing extension…
WooCommerce can store cost of goods for products, variations, and orders, but its built-in COGS feature does not currently feed those figures into Woo…
To track Pinterest conversions on WordPress, install one Pinterest Tag across your site and fire event codes for actions such as AddToCart, Checkout o…
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.