What is a plugin and what is it used for in WordPress?

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They are code components, that is, programs that are installed in WordPress to extend its standard functionality.

They work in a very similar way to how, for example, extensions or poland phone number list for web browsers do and are made with the same technologies as WordPress, that is, they are programmed in PHP , and use HTML , CSS stylesheets and JavaScript for the user interface part.

You can also implement almost anything you can imagine and that is what makes WordPress so versatile and powerful to the point that it is actually good for much more than just blogging.



4 Examples of how you can use it
Generate additional traffic with Tweet Old Post: This plugin goes through your blog's archive of posts and pages to make random tweets of this content.
Create an e-commerce store with the WooCommerce plugin: This helps us to create our online store.
Monitor your plugins with P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler): What it does is measure how much time your plugins add to the loading of your pages or, in other words: to what extent they slow down the loading times of your blog and, in addition, it breaks down those times so that you can see the consumption of each of them.