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All guides →You can build a basic intranet with WordPress pages, private content, user accounts and carefully assigned roles. WordPress does not provide whole-sit…
To create an online store with WooCommerce, install WooCommerce on WordPress, follow its setup checklist, add products, configure payments, tax and sh…
WooCommerce's built-in importer accepts CSV or TXT, not supplier XML, so a direct XML import needs an importer plugin or a custom conversion script. F…
WooCommerce does not collect direct debits by itself. You need a gateway integration such as GoCardless, which creates the customer’s bank mandate, re…
WooCommerce includes cheque payments, so you do not need a plugin for the basic setup. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Take offline payments…
WordPress does not calculate multi-level affiliate commissions by itself. You need an affiliate system that records parent relationships, calculates e…
You can track ad clicks and conversions in WordPress with Google Analytics 4, UTM-tagged links and event tracking. Impressions for self-hosted banners…
You can track ad clicks and campaign traffic with GA4, but reliable impressions and conversions need extra event setup. Use Google Tag Manager for a m…
WordPress has no built-in affiliate-program system. For a small programme, you can assign unique WooCommerce coupons and reconcile sales manually, but…
AffiliateWP can track the first subscription payment, but recurring commissions need a recurring-referrals add-on or custom automation. The manual rou…
You can add social sharing buttons with the Sharing Buttons block supplied by Jetpack, or use a dedicated sharing plugin for floating buttons and per-…
WooCommerce can manage stock without another plugin. Enable global stock management, turn it on for each product or variation, then set quantities, ba…
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.