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Understanding the plugin landscape - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: Building a Small Business Website with Open Source WordPress
Understanding the plugin landscape
- [Instructor] Let's talk a bit about plugins. Plugins are small applications that literally plug into WordPress to add new features and functionality to your site. Some might even help you integrate with third party software, such as an email marketing app or a social media platform. Just like themes, there's a lot of plugins out there to choose from. For instance, in the wordpress.org plugin directory alone, there are over 59,000 plugins. If you turn to Google for your plugin search, you'll turn up even more free and paid or premium plugins. Like themes, plugins can come from reputable sources or not. They also play a role in the performance of your website. This means that as a WordPress user, you need to be pretty savvy about how to pick your plugins. At WordPress meetups and word camps, one of the most frequent questions I hear from DIY WordPress users is how do I know which plugins I should use? Well in the rest of…
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