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 →You can create a basic news or magazine website with WordPress without a plugin: organise posts with categories, set a static homepage, and build sect…
Build the store with WooCommerce, then shape the homepage, shop, category pages and product templates around clear product images, filters and mobile…
WooCommerce can sell downloadable products, but it does not create a multi-vendor marketplace by itself. Use a multi-vendor extension for vendor regis…
You can build a fashion store with WooCommerce using its standard products, categories, attributes, variations, shipping, tax and payment settings. A…
WooCommerce handles full and partial refunds from the order screen, either through a compatible payment gateway or manually. Returns are different: yo…
For a one-off report, export your form entries to CSV and build the chart in Excel or Google Sheets. To show responsive charts inside WordPress and ke…
Gravity Forms includes a built-in CSV export under Forms > Import/Export. Select a form, choose fields, filter by status or date, then download the fi…
You need an LMS plugin to sell a proper online course in WordPress, because WordPress alone does not provide course lessons, enrolments, quizzes, prog…
WooCommerce can handle products, accounts, taxes and orders, but it does not provide role-based wholesale pricing, account approval, quotes or minimum…
WordPress does not include online bookings by default, so you need either a manual form-and-calendar process or a booking plugin. The manual route sui…
WooCommerce does not provide a general custom-tab editor in its core product screen. For one fixed tab, add a small snippet with the woocommerce_produ…
WooCommerce displays variable products with dropdowns or buttons by default, not a front-end comparison table. You can build a custom table, but a var…
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.