Hello fellow students!
The most special thing about wordpress, making it the most used CMS in the world. That is, it can customize features to make any website. That’s because it has a massive plugin development community that serves many different purposes. In this article we .
What is a WordPress plugin?
WordPress plugins are sets of functions for wordpress, repackaged and usable by installing it on a wordpress site. Imagine a laptop, when you have finished installing windows, you can install additional software to serve the job such as Microsoft Office, Photoshop, etc. WordPress plugin, which plays the same role as software for windows. You can install it on your wordpress site, so that your website can be upgraded with more functions.
There are many types of plugins you can install to customize your website, such as Woocommerce plugin to make a sales page, E-learning plugin to make a learning website, Contact Form 7 plugin to create a contact page, etc.
Thanks to the ability to upgrade via plugin, it can be said that WordPress can do any kind of website.
How to install plugin for wordpress site
First, go to the Plugins menu in the WordPress admin page. Here will be a list of installed plugins. To install a new Plugin, click the Install New button at the top.
The WordPress Plugin Store appears. Like the theme repository, wordpress has thousands of different plugins, developed by a large community. Most plugins are free and paid. For the free plugin, there will be limited functionality, for full use you should use the paid version which will be more fully functional.
In each plugin you will see important information such as: features, developers, reviews, number of installs and activations, when was the last update. Finally, the plugin is compatible with the version of wordpress you are using or not.
If you want to find a plugin for a certain feature, you can search by keyword in the search box. Now I will choose to install the Yoast SEO Plugin. This is a famous SEO support plugin, with more than 5 million wordpress websites in use, rated 5 stars from the community. Once installed, you will immediately see an activate button instead of an Install button . Please enable it.
After installing and activating the plugin successfully. You will return to the plugin management page and you should now see the Yoast SEO plugin appear. You can deactivate and delete the plugin here.
In addition, you can also upload paid plugins and upload them in the plugin installation interface.
summary
WordPress plugins are developed by a huge community around the world. Plugins help solve many functions of any website to meet the needs of each person. In the next article, we will learn how to manage libraries in wordpress website!
