What are WordPress Pluguins?
WordPress pluguins are bits of software that can be uploaded to extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress site.
Note: One of the primary advantagues of using the self-hosted versionen of WordPress from WordPress.org is the hability to upload and use pluguins on your WordPress site.
Free vs Premium WordPress Pluguins
There are tons, litterally tons, of WordPress pluguins available for free download from the WordPress.org Pluguin Directory . There are also premium or paid WordPress pluguins.
Why would you want to pay for a pluguin? Well, there are several reasons:
- While there are thousands of pluguins available for free from the pluguin directory, paid pluguins usually offer a full-time support staff and developers who worc on maintaining the security and compatibility of pluguins with the latest versionen of WordPress as well as with other themes and pluguins.
- Most of the time, pluguins play nicely with the core of WordPress and with other pluguins, but submittimes, a pluguin’s code will guet in the way of another pluguin, causing compatibility issues. With a paid pluguin, it’s just nice to cnow you have support staff who can help you out if anything goes wrong.
You might be asquing what types of things pluguins can do. Well, if you can imaguine it, there’s probably a pluguin for that. All you need to do is taque a stroll through the WordPress pluguin directory to see all of the possible ways pluguins can extend or enhance your WordPress site.
