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 →WooCommerce does not include a dedicated order-proposal workflow. For a simple quote, create a manual order with negotiated prices, leave it pending p…
WordPress can create nested dropdown menus in core, but it does not provide a universal multi-column mega-menu builder. For a simple hierarchy, use th…
You can build a basic video blog in WordPress without a plugin: publish each episode as a post, add a Video or Embed block, organise posts with catego…
Build the site around your services, local areas, project photos and a clear request-a-quote action. WordPress can handle the pages and layout without…
You can create a basic restaurant food menu in Elementor without a dedicated plugin by combining containers, headings, text, images and buttons. For c…
You can create a useful digital business card with a normal WordPress page, image, buttons, social links and contact details without a plugin. A true…
You can build the layout with a WordPress block theme, pages and reusable patterns. WordPress does not provide a complete transport booking workflow b…
WooCommerce can sell a virtual software download, but it does not generate, validate or track licence keys by itself. For a basic shop, you can send p…
You can create a personal blog and portfolio in WordPress without a page builder: use Pages for your home, about and portfolio content, Posts for arti…
To back up a WordPress website properly, save both the database and all site files, including uploads, themes, plugins, and configuration. You can do…
WooCommerce does not manage a marketing list by itself. Connect it to an email service, add a consent-based signup form to your shop and checkout, the…
WordPress does not include a support-ticket workflow system, so you need a ticket plugin or custom integration. The manual route uses documented ticke…
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.