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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- Tools compared
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Latest guides
All guides →Gravity Forms does not provide address autocomplete in its core form builder. Use the official Geolocation Add-On or a specialist extension such as Gr…
WordPress search is fine for a small site if your content is well organised and the form submits a proper search query. For custom fields, faceted fil…
A normal WordPress product can collect payment for a service bundle, but it will not automatically track remaining sessions or apply package credits t…
WPBakery can handle most page design work with rows, columns, Design Options, responsive settings and custom CSS. Use those controls first; add an ext…
Manage categories and tags under Posts in the WordPress dashboard, then assign them while editing content. Custom taxonomies need code or a plugin, an…
WordPress can schedule a post to publish later, but it cannot natively schedule that post across Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks. You can…
WooCommerce does not include a customer wallet or reusable store-credit balance. You can issue a fixed-cart coupon manually for one-off credit, but a…
WordPress manages permissions through roles and capabilities. You can assign built-in roles from the Users screen, or create more precise rules with c…
WooCommerce does not sell true prepaid, multi-use gift cards by itself. You can make a virtual product and issue coupons manually for simple vouchers,…
You can enhance most Bricks Builder page designs without another plugin by using sections, containers, flex or grid layouts, global classes, variables…
WordPress does not generate finished AI articles by itself. The manual route is to create a draft with an AI service and paste it into Gutenberg; for…
WooCommerce does not include a true customer group feature. You can use WordPress roles for basic manual segmentation, but a groups plugin is needed w…
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.