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 →You can create a city government website with WordPress pages, a static homepage, a service-led navigation menu and accessible block layouts without c…
WooCommerce includes coupon creation, so you do not need a plugin for a normal discount code. Enable coupons, create one under Marketing > Coupons, ch…
For separate WordPress sites, you need a management layer because standard WordPress has no shared dashboard across independent installations. Use Wor…
You can create custom WordPress layouts in the Site Editor if you use a block theme, or with child-theme templates and CSS for a classic theme. For si…
WooCommerce handles digital orders and downloads, but it does not provide a complete API licence system on its own. For a small catalogue, you can bui…
WooCommerce includes a basic sale badge, but custom labels such as New, Bestseller or Low stock need custom code or a badge plugin. Use a small code s…
A live Instagram feed usually needs a plugin because WordPress no longer handles Instagram’s old oEmbed connection in core. For one or two posts, add…
Gravity Forms does not provide a front-end view that combines several forms by itself. You can build one with custom PHP using the Gravity Forms API,…
You can filter stored submissions in the WordPress admin with your form plugin’s built-in entry tools. If visitors need to filter a public directory o…
WordPress can embed many media sources without a plugin: paste a supported URL into an Embed block, or use Image, Gallery, Video, Audio and File block…
You can build a WordPress website visually without a plugin by activating a block theme and using Appearance > Editor to design pages, templates, head…
WooCommerce can save products for later, but it does not provide a customer-facing way to share and restore an entire cart. Use the native Save for La…
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.