From the course: Building a Small Business Website with Open Source WordPress

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Roundup of plugins for this course

Roundup of plugins for this course

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at some of the plugins I've selected to help us achieve our site goals. First, we need a contact form so that site visitors can get in touch. I've picked the Ninja Forms plugin to help us. Now, there are a lot of plugins out there for forms but the reason I selected this one for a small business site is this, it's easy to use, has some really powerful capabilities, and down the road, should you ever need additional form functionality? Ninja Forms integrates with quite a few third party tools like PayPal and MailChimp. Next I've selected Spectra, a block library plugin. While WordPress comes with a lot of blocks, you may find yourself wanting more advanced blocks or something really specific like an accordion block or tabs. There are lots of block library plugins out there but spectra is developed by the same team that created the Astra theme I'm using. So I know the integration…

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