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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 bulk change basic course data through your LMS or WordPress list screen, but the built-in tools usually cover only status, taxonomy, or select…
WooCommerce lets you select several orders and bulk-change their status or remove personal data. It does not natively bulk-edit addresses, payment met…
WordPress’s Table block is fine for a small, mostly static table. For records that need regular editing, importing, filtering, or bulk updates, store…
WordPress lets you select multiple users and change their role, delete accounts or send password-reset emails. It does not natively bulk-edit profile…
WordPress custom tables are managed in code with the $wpdb API, a prefixed table name, prepared queries and dbDelta() for schema changes. For one-off…
You can use WordPress’s built-in Bulk actions menu for simple event changes such as status, author, categories, or comments. Event dates, times, venue…
WordPress lets you bulk approve, unapprove, mark as spam or trash comments from Comments. It does not provide a native bulk editor for comment text, n…
WordPress can edit taxonomy terms one at a time and delete selected terms in bulk, but it cannot natively bulk-change names, slugs, descriptions, or p…
WooCommerce now includes a dedicated Brands taxonomy, so you can create brands, assign them to products, and give each brand its own archive page with…
Use WordPress’s built-in Posts > Categories screen to create a clear hierarchy, then assign categories from each post’s editor sidebar. The manual rou…
LearnPress does not process every payment method by itself. For a simple setup, use its built-in PayPal or offline payment option; for cards, currenci…
WordPress does not provide complete cookie-consent management by itself. You must identify the cookies your site uses, keep necessary cookies running,…
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- 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.