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Feb
2007

Wordpress Plugin Basics

February 8th, 2007 at 08:02 pm by ashok in Plugin

Before I started blogging, I was unaware of many technical terms of blogging. With the lapse of times I learned many terms of blogging. My offline friends, who are not very much geeky, for them blog appears to be highly technical things. They used to ask me many questions of about blogs, plugin, themes etc. I am writing an small introduction about wordpress plugin for my friends and others who are interested to know what it is. I know many of my online visitors are aware of this, but still there are many newbies for them this introduction will help.

What is a plugin? A plugin is a small software that adds extra functionality and features to your blog. Some plugins add advertising, and monetizing to your website. Others add links and feeds and other special features. We can divide Wordpress plugin in following categories:

· Administration
· Business and Monetizing
· Design, Layout and Styles
· Graphics, Video and Sound
· Links
· Odds and Ends
· Outside Information
· Posts

Here’s a few examples from these general categories showing plugins that serve each purpose.

Administration Plugins - Administration plugins help you administer your website more effectively. These include spell check, crawl page generation for posts and a host of other capabilities.

Business and Monetizing Plugins - These plugins have the ability to build in a shopping cart, sell items from CafePress, and create surveys that give you financial credit.

Design, Layout and Styles - These type of plugins include customizable post listings, auto-archiving, recent comments, most recent updates are showcased on the website, and recent posts.

Graphics, Video and Sound - Coolplayer will allow multimedia content to play, and user audio on-line.

Odds and Ends - These plugins include financial information, weather, geomapping data, user forums, date and time information.
Links - These plugins include Blog links, link checker, Google Pics, Incoming Links, and random linking system.

Outside Information - These plugins import external data from outside the Wordpress website. Data like Amazon.com, Media Press, and Blog It information.

Posts - These allow for cellphone-based blog posts, Bible posts, browser blog and exceptions, and many other types of posts.

In next post I will write how to install plugin

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