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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You can publish a small careers page manually, but a multi-employer job board needs a plugin or custom development for structured listings, applicatio…
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You can build a WordPress site from pre-built templates by installing a suitable theme, importing its starter site, and replacing the demo content wit…
You can build a WordPress magazine without a plugin by using a block theme, categories, patterns, and Query Loop blocks. Create a static homepage or e…
You can create a magazine-style WordPress site without a plugin by using a block theme, a static homepage and Query Loop blocks filtered by category.…
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You can create a government website in WordPress with pages, block templates and a clear navigation structure. A block theme is enough for a basic sit…
WooCommerce handles products, checkout, payments, stock, tax and shipping, but vehicle compatibility search usually needs a fitment plugin or custom i…
You can build a SaaS startup website manually with WordPress and Elementor, but Elementor Pro is useful for custom headers, footers and lead forms. Pl…
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.