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.
- Guides
- 520
- Steps written
- 3,084
- Tools compared
- 643
- Topics
- 21
Latest guides
All guides →For simple public files, upload them to the Media Library and add a File block to a page. WordPress does not, by itself, provide reliable private-file…
WooCommerce does not include a built-in product QR-code generator. For a few products, create a QR code from each product URL and add the image to the…
WordPress core can create user accounts and assign basic roles, but it does not provide member profiles, directories, private messaging or a complete…
Build the site around what patients need first: services, dentist and staff details, opening hours, location, emergency information, and an obvious ca…
You can build a food shop with WooCommerce without custom code: add your catalogue, configure payment, tax and delivery settings, create food-specific…
WordPress has no built-in booking-to-calendar sync. If your booking plugin supports iCal, you can exchange calendar feeds, but updates may be delayed.…
Build the site around services, locations, proof and contact options. You can do the layout manually with a block theme and WordPress pages; use Eleme…
WordPress galleries can display images but cannot charge customers or deliver protected files after payment. Use WooCommerce with downloadable product…
WooCommerce already includes product galleries, so you can showcase a product by setting a main image, adding gallery images and arranging their order…
WooCommerce can create percentage and fixed-value coupons, but it does not know who your members are or apply member pricing automatically. Use a rest…
WordPress has no built-in membership analytics. Use your membership plugin’s reports for signups, active members, payments and cancellations, then con…
WooCommerce does not include a native order archive. The manual route is to export older orders, back up the database, and move them to trash or a sep…
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.
By topic
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.