In this video, I'll be covering WordPress plugins. What are they? How do you get them?
How do they work? And how do they even come into existence? Think you know everything there is to
know about WordPress plugins? Well stick around anyway and you just might learn something new.
What is a plugin and why does it even need to exist? In short, plugins are add-ons that can be
installed on your WordPress website to give it specific functions or sets of features that it
originally didn't have. For example, let's say i manifest a website out of thin air using
WordPress. Yep it's cool and all but it doesn't allow me to create contact forms on my website
straight out of the box. This is where plugins come in, I install a plugin and it adds the
necessary functionality like an expansion pack. In this case it adds the contact form functionality
to my website. When you install WordPress onto your website it can't do absolutely everything
right out of the box, nor should it. Having the ability to pick and choose only the functionality
that you need is essential to keeping WordPress lightweight and easy to use. But the question is
how are plugins made? In today's show we'll be covering plugins. Everyone has plugins
on their WordPress websites but few people actually know how they're made. The first step
is to extract the raw code from the codenberry trees, then debug it using the dedicated WAMS.
Once the WAMS are out of memory juice the raw code is then fully grunged and ready to be compiled.
OK but in all seriousness plugins can be made by absolutely anyone who has a little bit of coding
knowledge, because WordPress gives people access to certain parts of WordPress and people can write
code to interact with it. The extra functionality is awesome and using building blocks to expand
your website is a hassle-free and easy way to scale up, but who the hell invests their time
into making plugins and why? Well for one very simple reason... There's money to be made. Because
not every single plugin is free, you can find the premium plugins that cost from $29 to $99
and some of them have monthly pricing some of them have one-time payments. Most plugins now implement
the Freemium model where the free or lite version of a plugin is completely free to use but some
features are locked of course if you want to have full functionality or more advanced features you
just have to buy the pro version. A quick side note, cracked, illegal and nulled premium plugins
do exist but believe me it's just going to bite you in the ass at the end. Most of these cracked
plugins are not updated. So, they will slow your website down or break it all together. And most
of these even have a malicious code written into them to make your website do things that you don't
want it to do or track you or your users. But I'm not your mom, I'm not gonna tell you how to manage
your website. But my professional recommendation would be to avoid them at all cost because
you see WordPress gets updated quite often and plugins need to be updated together with it. So,
everything is compatible. Usually you'll have to log in at least once a week and update everything
well that needs updating. It gets quite tedious when you have more than one website but sometimes
WordPress updates are offered automatically by your web hosting provider. For example,
SiteGround or Bluehost allow you to manage all updates automatically so you wouldn't
need to update every single plugin manually. And even with the new WordPress 5.5 version you can
activate automatic updates without even having a web hosting provider that offers this feature.
But in general, I would recommend choosing a web hosting provider that offers automatic updates
because these usually test the plugin before updating it to see if there are any compatibility
issues or does it break your website. And this new WordPress 5.5 feature? Well it just came out
and there's not much testing been done on it so I'm sure that websites are going to break.
If you want to add plugins onto your website the easiest and most popular way is to navigate to the
WordPress dashboard, hover over the plugins tab and click add new. Then in the search bar type
in the plugin name you want if you don't know the name of the plugin that you need exactly
you can just Google that. For example, how to add smooth scrolling to my WordPress website and
you'll definitely get some good recommendations there. Once you have what you need just click
install and activate. Now the management screens vary from plugin to plugin but in general you'll
be able to reach them through the plugin section directly or through the WordPress sidebar. And
of course i have more videos about WordPress and web hosting on my channel because this is what my
channel is about. So, I recommend you subscribe if you're interested in this sort of stuff.
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but for now I hope you enjoyed this video and my name is Emit good luck making your websites!