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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Configuring and Using Plugins

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Exploring activate-and-go plugins

Bullet Discovering settings screens

Bullet Using widgets

Bullet Enhancing your content with shortcodes

The types of features offered by WordPress plugins are diverse. Similarly, the ways of interacting with plugins are also diverse. Some plugins don’t have an interface and can be activated or deactivated only; some provide one or more settings screens to control how the plugins behaves. Other plugins offer widgets and shortcodes (short, easy-to-remember codes used to execute PHP functions) used to add new features to sidebars and content.

This chapter digs into the topic of how to interact with plugins. Although this topic is a big one, the examples in this chapter prepare you for different ways of interacting with plugins.

Exploring Activate-and-Go Plugins

Certain plugins are easy to use because they don’t have any settings or features to interact with. I call them activate-and-go plugins. You simply activate them, and they do what they’re intended to do.

Like WordPress plugins as a whole, activate-and-go plugins ...

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