In today’s post I will delve into WordPress Plugins basics and why are they important for our blog growth.
When we release a new WordPress Website we can choose from approximately 55,000 available plugins to add to our blog. WordPress offers a broad variety of plugins, whether we are referring to photography plugins, newsletters, or some other plugins that can provide the required functionality and features for our site.
In simpler terms, plugins are the features that will turn our page from a simplistic blog to a dynamic one with advanced functionality, according to our preference, providing a better experience to our website guests.
Plugins are pieces of software (pre-coded apps that integrate with our WordPress site) that are designed to perform a specific set of functions or add a specific kind of feature, to any self-hosted WordPress site.
Sadly, these plugins function only for self-hosted websites, and not hosted versions such as WordPress.com. Hosted websites typically provide theme options for customizing plugins so it isn’t possible to add plugins freely and customize sites on these platforms.
Many of these plugins can be discovered on the WordPress Plugin Page, but as previously mentioned, they work only for self-hosted websites (WordPress.org platform). In this case, if we own a self-hosted website, we can download the plugin .zip file, and then upload it on the plugin page of our WordPress Page.
What Plugin experience does the WordPress Premium Plan offers?
Sadly, the WordPress Premium or Free Plan does not offer the possibility to install plugins from third-party vendors. To install plugins, bloggers like us require to purchase the WordPress Business Plan which costs about $299 per year.
WordPress.com hosts a collection of about 200 homemade and partner themes so we can style our site with a layout at our preference. Thanks to the Premium plan, we’ll be able to install any of these themes for free, even the paid ones.
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Hei, dar de ce nu îți iei hosting de la o altă firmă cum am eu. E mult mai ieftin, plătesc 5 euro pe lună și 200 de lei aproximativ pe an pentru domeniul .ro. Și pot instala ce plugin vreau. Domeniile de la WP sunt cele mai scumpe și nu se merită în raport cu ce oferă la banii pe care îi plătești, Kate!
Hey, Diana, merci de idee! Pentru moment deja am cumparat pachetul WP Premium si incerc sa ma familiarizez cu toate pro’s and con’s.
Sinceră să fiu, sunt puține persoane care au acest pachet și sunt mulțumite. Costa mult și nu poți face mai nimic. Nu poți instala măcar un modul de SEO… Dar, poate pe viitor, când expiră acest abonament vei lua in considerare alte opțiuni, nu pierzi nimic, tortul poate fi transferat și adresa o păstrezi 😁 Am și un articol pe blog unde explic care sunt avantajele de a lua un domeniu propriu (dar în adevăratul sens al cuvântului) și care sunt dezavantajele.
Chiar multumesc pentru aceste informatii, incerc sa inteleg si eu WordPress pe indelete si nu doar sa scriu de dragul de a scrie, ca fac asta de ani buni. O sa trec cu siguranta pe acolo, multumesc inca o data pentru idee! 🙂
Am mai multe pe blog în categoria Despre blogging și scris 😁sigur îți vor fi de folos 🤗
Sarutmana, e weekend si probabil I will dive in today 🤭🤗
😀 Să-ți fie de folos!
I feel for a blog of general nature , Premium Subscription is more than enough.
This is my personal opinion too.
Same for me, but for now I just want to discover everything that it is to know about blogging and this platform.
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Very useful information thank you