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 →Each WordPress backup must include both the site files and database. You can manage a few sites manually with hosting tools, SFTP and WP-CLI, but a ce…
WordPress can handle accounts, roles, pages and comments by itself, but profiles, activity feeds, groups and private messaging need a community plugin…
WooCommerce can handle shared shipping rates with zones and methods, but it does not provide vendor-specific shipping by itself. For a marketplace, us…
WordPress can create a user from Users > Add New, but it does not provide membership levels, protected-content access, or membership expiry by itself.…
WordPress does not provide a complete, searchable user activity log by default. You can build a limited log with a custom plugin and WordPress hooks,…
You can add a PayPal payment link or button for simple, fixed listing fees, but a directory that needs paid submissions, subscriptions and automatic l…
You need a plugin for proper email campaigns in WordPress. WordPress can send individual messages with wp_mail() and schedule tasks with WP-Cron, but…
You can automate WordPress form submissions with your form plugin’s notifications, entry storage, webhooks or API connections. For custom workflows, u…
WordPress does not include a built-in setting for showing parts of a page to selected roles. You can create a custom capability and check it in your t…
WordPress can create user accounts, but its native registration form has no payment step. To collect money during signup, connect a membership, LMS, W…
You can customise the WordPress admin dashboard without a plugin by hiding, moving and rearranging widgets, changing your colour scheme and adding a s…
You can publish lessons with WordPress pages, but selling a proper course needs an LMS or membership setup for enrolment, protected content, progress,…
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.