Chapter 3
Configuring and Using Plugins
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exploring activate-and-go plugins
Discovering settings screens
Using widgets
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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