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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 cannot restrict custom post types by membership level on its own. You need either custom code connected to a membership system or a membersh…
WordPress has no built-in spam filter for membership registrations. First protect the actual signup form with CAPTCHA, honeypot or email verification,…
If you use Paid Memberships Pro, you can collect first and last names without a form builder by adding User Fields to the membership checkout. For the…
You can build a WordPress website without coding by choosing a theme, creating your pages, and arranging blocks in the visual editor. A block theme le…
WooCommerce does not include customer price-drop subscriptions, target-price tracking or automatic alerts. You can build that workflow with custom cod…
WooCommerce does not create PDF invoices in core. For occasional orders, send the built-in order-details email and save it as a PDF from the browser;…
WooCommerce can show related products, upsells and cross-sells, but it does not create fully personalized recommendations from each shopper’s views an…
WordPress can publish course content, but selling a proper course with enrolment, progress tracking, quizzes, and protected lessons requires an LMS pl…
WooCommerce does not provide the same fraud-blocking tools on every hosting setup. Use your payment gateway and any available WooCommerce fraud contro…
WordPress can display simple classified listings, but it does not provide front-end submissions, seller accounts, advanced filters or listing payments…
bbPress does not include a complete image-upload system for ordinary forum members, so the manual route involves enabling the WordPress media editor a…
WooCommerce includes a basic bulk editor for selected products and a built-in CSV importer for larger updates. Use the list editor for simple changes,…
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.