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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 →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.…
You can build a complete WordPress website with Elementor without writing code. Create your pages, set global colours and fonts, design each layout wi…
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…
Open AffiliateWP » Referrals, filter for pending referrals, check the linked order and affiliate details, then accept valid referrals or reject suspic…
AffiliateWP does not normally show customer and order fields beside referrals. You need custom development or an order-details add-on that supports Wo…
WordPress can show a PDF with its File block, but it does not convert each page into a responsive slide carousel. For a true slide presentation, you n…
AffiliateWP creates an affiliate dashboard automatically, but you can customise its page, forms, layout and styling. The manual route uses the Affilia…
WooCommerce normally sends logged-in users to My Account. To send approved AffiliateWP affiliates to their dashboard instead, use WooCommerce’s login…
With AffiliateWP, edit a supported product and enable its option to disable referrals. That is fine for a few exclusions, but a large catalogue is eas…
You can track referrals from an external website by carrying the affiliate ID from the first landing URL to your WordPress site, then letting your aff…
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.