Plugins
Advanced Custom Fields: Strengths, Limits and Lock-in
ACF turns WordPress into a genuine content modelling tool. The decision that matters is not free versus Pro — it is whether your field definitions live in code or in the database.
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Step-by-step guides for getting things done in WordPress.
Plugins
ACF turns WordPress into a genuine content modelling tool. The decision that matters is not free versus Pro — it is whether your field definitions live in code or in the database.
Website Tools
Local turns a WordPress install into a two-click operation on your own computer. It is excellent at the thing it does and it is not staging — knowing that boundary saves a lot of confusion.
WordPress Tutorials
Git tracks files. WordPress keeps its content in a database and its uploads on disk, so the useful question is not whether to version a WordPress site but which parts of it to version.
WooCommerce
A bookable product is a product whose stock is a slot in a calendar. That one difference changes availability, carts, cancellations and time zones — and it is where booking setups go wrong.
WooCommerce
Selling in a room and selling online are the same catalogue and two different systems. What decides whether it works is stock synchronisation and what happens when the connection drops.
WordPress Tutorials
Every upload becomes several files on disk and a post in the database. Once a library reaches a few thousand items, the decisions you did not make at the start start costing you.
WordPress Tutorials
A landing page is a page with one job and everything else removed. On WordPress that means a template with no navigation, one call to action, and a measurement plan you set up before you launch it.
WordPress Tutorials
The word now means three different things: classic widgets, the block-based widget screen, and a page builder's elements. Knowing which one you have explains why the advice you found does not match your screen.
WordPress Tutorials
Headless keeps WordPress as the editor and content store and renders the front end somewhere else. You gain control of the output and lose most of what makes WordPress easy to operate.
WordPress Tutorials
A local install is a WordPress site running on your own machine, with no hosting and no internet. It is the right place to learn, to build, and to break things — as long as you know what it cannot test.
WordPress Tutorials
WP-CLI turns half-hour admin tasks into one line, and makes several jobs possible that the dashboard cannot do at all — including fixing a site whose dashboard will not load.
WooCommerce
The new product editing screen replaces the metabox layout with a block-based, tabbed interface. It is faster to work in and it drops third-party metaboxes, which is the whole decision in one sentence.