WordPress Plugins

Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.

We will discuss Plugins about WordPress version 1.2 and above.

Plugins by Category

Administration : its includes tools which extend the functionality for admin panel like drop down menu, spell checker, advertisements, meta, search results, translation & language and lot more.

You can have more at http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Administration

Business and Monetizing : Its includes tools which help in managing WP from business point of view like insert your code to track traffic, email newsletter service, and for e-commerce supported tools.

You can have at following http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Business

Graphics, Video, and Sound : it provides tools for playing audio and video files, creating avatar for different posts and creating Flickr things.

You can have more at http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Graphics.2C_Video.2C_and_Sound

Links : It provides tools from which we can have following benefits like incoming links to blog, link optimizer, predefined links to words in post, digg it, google PR , paypal donation button, skypestatus and lot more.

You can have more at http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Links

Odds and Ends : it provides tools for financial, forums, geographical information, time display, weather information etc.

Post: it provides some more tools through which we can make changes in our post.

Plugins Installation

Step 1. download the plugin which you want to have with your blog

Step 2. unzipped the downloaded file

Step 3. upload the same to wp-content/ plugins folder

Step 4. Activate your plugin in your Administration control panel

Step 5. Call a function in your code if required

Other Resources

I have talked about plugins provided by WP itself but you can have more from other resources like

http://wp-plugins.net

http://wiki.wordpress.org/Plugin

http://www.staska.net/2007/03/27/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/

More you can find out yourself

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