Wordpress Plugins
Plugins are one of the most important parts of wordpress websites. We use plugins to build great functions/features in Wordpress website..
Sometimes, beginners find it difficult to understand. But don’t worry, we’re going to understand it in a simple way.
So, we use plugins to add new features and functions to our websites. Let’s consider an example: You can compare this with applications on your smartphone. Plugins work in a similar way for wordpress websites as applications works for a smartphone. There are more than 50000 plugins available on the internet. The majority of them are free but definitely, there are thousands of premium paid plugins that are sold by individual developers and companies.
You can consider plugins as small software apps that run on top of wordpress software. Plugins are the only reasons we can make today different kinds of websites today with WordPress. There are few websites that you can create with the help of some of these plugins:-
1)You can create coupon website like RetailMeNot 2) You can establish your online store with the help of WordPress using the WooCommerce plugin. 3)You can start your own podcast website
4)You can also create a website like a wiki with the help of a few plugins.
5)You can establish your portfolio using wordpress 6)You can also build your business model websites, corporate websites, and much more with the help of plugins.
Some of the best and most used plugins are HubSpotWordPress Plugin, Proof, All in One SEO, Optimole, RightMessage, LimeSpot Personalizer, HotJar,
Qualaroo, Jumper.ai, Intercom, OptinMonster, Yoast SEO Plugin, WooCommerce, Drift, VWO A/B Testing, Prooffactor, etc.
View Plugins
You can find the plugin option just below the appearance section in the left section of your wordpress admin dashboard. You can search and find thousands and thousands of plugins that can help you to add different features to your site. You can see how many plugins are already installed and currently actively working on your site.
Install Plugins
You can find the installed plugins option there. In this section, you can search and install a number of plugins according to your requirement. You simply need to click on install and then activate the plugin. And Boom! We’ve successfully installed a plugin on our wordpress website.
Customize Plugins
There’s also an option on the very last plugin option called Plugin editor. You can use this section to customise plugins for improving their functions and features and obviously to make our website attractive. Some experienced developers can easily do this by editing code. But this is not a good practice for a beginner. The reason
behind this is if you break some important code then your website will become unstable which is a very bad experience for everyone.
But we don’t need to become coders to customize our plugins. We can easily do this with the help of other plugins. Yes, you heard it right! In order to do this, you need to add a new option where you can find a plugin called Custom Login Page Customizer which is helpful in editing your login page of the site. Now, install and activate this plugin. After activating this plugin, you can find a number of options to customize the site. You can customize the logo, background, form background, and few more things using this plugin. There are many more plugins like this that help you to customize different sections of plugins.