Right. How do I actually do that?
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 does not natively sync membership status with Discord. The manual method is to invite members and manage Discord roles yourself; automatic r…
WordPress does not include membership pricing controls, so your membership plugin must handle the charge. Set the initial payment, recurring amount, b…
WordPress does not natively convert membership prices by visitor location. For a small site, show manually calculated approximate prices beside your b…
WordPress can assign roles and capabilities, but it does not include membership levels or automatic role changes when a subscription starts, changes,…
WordPress can schedule content for fixed dates, but it cannot natively release lessons a different number of days after each member joins. For signup-…
WordPress does not provide membership checkout fields by itself, so your membership plugin must handle the address. In Paid Memberships Pro, you can b…
WooCommerce does not include a reusable size-chart manager in its core product editor. For a few products, add a table to each product description; fo…
WooCommerce can record occasional in-person sales through manual orders or its mobile POS tools, but the core admin is not a full shop counter system.…
WordPress includes user accounts but not public front-end profiles or social login. You can build profiles with custom forms, user meta and OAuth code…
WordPress does not automatically add contextual affiliate or internal links by itself. You can add a few links manually, hire a developer to filter po…
You can build a basic recipe card with WordPress blocks, but core WordPress does not provide recipe fields, print styling or Recipe structured data. F…
For content from another WordPress site, use Tools → Import with a WordPress XML export. CSV, XML, custom fields and scheduled updates usually need an…
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.