WordPress plugins
What are those WordPress plugins ?
By defoult the WordPress engine has only the basics functions such as:
- Adding and editing posts.
- Adding and editing pages.
- Adding and editing categories.
- Adding basic widgets such as: tags cloud, menu widget and more.
- Managing comments.
- Updating your theme.
- Changing general settings.
How ever if you want to expend the functionality of your blog you will need to add different plugins to your WordPress engine.
With the help of those plugins your blog will be able to do almost everything.
Here are some of the functions WordPress plugins can perform:
- SEO optimization.
- Adding contact forms.
- Showing related posts.
- Adding ratings to your posts.
- Adding statistics.
- Linking to tweeter.
- Adding galleries.
- Adding email/feed burner subscription.
- And much much more…
The amount of the WordPress plugin is huge and you will probably be able to find plugins for your needs easily.
Where to find WP-plugins ?
The best place to look for those plugins is: WordPress.org website.
Make sure you are on the Extend -> Plugins page.
Another option is to look for plugins on Google, but this option is not recommended for the following reasons:
- The amount of plugins on wordpress.org is huge.
WordPress.org plugins search
- If a plugin is not listed in WordPress.org it was not tasted or not approved.
In such case it can be harmful for your blog and information. - I suggest that even if you find a plugin through its website, go to wordpress.org to make sure that it is listed there.
- It is much easier to install plugins thorough wordpress.org thanks to the “One click installation” function(there is no need to manually download and extract files to the plugin folder)