Understanding WordPress Plugins

by Vanjana Arya CEO

One of the most powerful assets of WordPress is Plugins and these are modules developers or designers activated on any website providing a series of features or elements. Plugin Development India, functionality a designer can add to the website depending on what each specific plugin has been created. There are varieties of plugins ranging from simpler ones to extensive plugins leading to significant changes required for eCommerce integrations or any third party interaction.

Plugins work independently, completely different from theme using hooks, filters, shortcode, widgets and custom code to perform their functions. Just like two faces of the coin there are positive and negative about everything. So here are the strengths, weaknesses and consideration of plugins.

For re-using the functionality plugins are great providing both to developers and admins. Even though they are great tools they have weaknesses and strength.

Strength

With any theme plugins can be incorporated and works properly. They were created keeping in mind the modularity that can copy into a new project which is great.

For all of your code and elements, it acts as a container, if anyone aiming at building similar functionality in the theme then might elements may get mixed up.

A single package is available for functional requirement in the plugin; they are very easy in building taking benefits of WordPress’s action and filter hooks.

In an object Oriented fashion it can be easily created along with the creation of more robust and manageable code.

Weakness

Website’s theme will face limited access and plugins can’t output code directly into a location on a theme. A theme has to provide an area for your plugin to output such as the content area or via a widget area.

There are conflicts due to plugin or due to another plugin resulting in negative effect to website plugin ruining the experience.

There are also limited access to templates and designs, which are supposed to provide the functionality and the theme providing the styling with the Affordable SEO Services India.