Before proceeding about what is a wordpress plugin, it’s good to know first what wordpress is, wordpress is a free / open source Content Management System (CMS) platform created to make it easier to manage the content of a website, be it a company profile website, shop online, blogs, forums, etc., for more details you can read the article here.
When we first install wordpress, we are only given the standard features of wordpress itself so we need additional tools to optimize the standard wordpress tools to meet our needs in the website that we will create, so for that we need a plugin, so a wordpress plugin is a tool or tool or software that is useful for adding / enriching features of wordpress to meet the needs of the website that we will create.
We can make wordpress plugins ourselves by complying with the standard way of writing plugin code, you can learn more about it from google or directly from the wordpress codex website here.
There are so many wordpress plugins in cyberspace, you can search for them according to the needs of the website you are creating, besides that there are several things that must be considered in choosing a plugin from cyberspace, namely:
1. We have to look for plugins that do not conflict or are compatible with other themes and plugins that we use.
2. We are looking for a plugin that supports continuous documentation and updates so that when the wordpress version is updated, the plugin is also available with the update file.
3. We must pay attention to the security of the plugins that we will use so that later it will not harm the website that we create.
4. Easy to use and according to our needs.
5. The plugin maker is easy to contact if later there is an error or there is something that needs to be asked either via email or phone.
6. The forum is there for questions later if there are problems or difficulties in using it.