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How can plugins improve your blog's functionality?

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If you have a blog, you might want to enhance its features, design, and performance. One way to do that is by using plugins, which are software components that add specific functions to your blog platform. Plugins can help you improve your blog's functionality in various ways, such as optimizing it for search engines, adding social media buttons, creating contact forms, and more. In this article, you will learn how plugins work, how to choose the right ones for your blog, and how to install and manage them.

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Anirudh Phadke

Publisher & Editor of THE VIYUG | Member of the Board of Studies (BoS) at Guru Nanak College (Autonomous)

1 What are plugins?

Plugins are pieces of code that extend the capabilities of your blog platform, such as WordPress, Blogger, or Medium. These pieces of code are typically created by third-party developers who offer them for free or for a fee. Plugins can add various types of functionality to your blog, such as security against spam, malware, and hackers; SEO optimization with sitemaps, meta tags, and keywords; design enhancements with themes, widgets, and fonts; content variety with multimedia, galleries, polls, and quizzes; and interaction boosts with social media buttons, comments, ratings, and contact forms.

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Anirudh Phadke

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I run my Website using Wordpress.com platform. Here the plugins are additional tools that enhance functionality of a Website. It enables seamless content creation and hassle free implementation of your ideas into its existence. For example, in context of Journalism and News Media, a security based plugin can automatically protect a Website from endless cyberattacks while another plugin for SEO can automatically boost your published content in top places on a search engine.

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Por ejemplo; Un plugin, puede solucionar la implementación de un Asistente Virtual por chat sin tener que desarrollar una línea de código, se activa, con una simple configuración del Plugin y Listo!

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2 How to choose plugins?

When selecting plugins for your blog, it's important to define your goals and do your research. Consider what you want to achieve with your blog, such as increasing traffic or improving user experience. Use online directories, reviews, ratings, and recommendations to compare different plugins. Additionally, test the plugin on a local or staging site before installing it on your live blog. This way, you can check if it works correctly, conflicts with other plugins or themes, and affects your blog's speed and performance.

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Anirudh Phadke

Publisher & Editor of THE VIYUG | Member of the Board of Studies (BoS) at Guru Nanak College (Autonomous)
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Choosing plugins can be a daunting task. Every business is unique so you need to carefully plan ahead in installing/buying plugins. In context of Wordpress.com platform you need certain higher plan namely creator plan to even be eligible for adding plugins. In context of Journalism, you need few plugins based on this business context. Some potential plugins to choose are to fulfil the needs of protecting website, plagiarism/grammar check, SEO tools, Landing pages for adding more subscribers, multiple newsletters, news feeder, social media automator and similar others. These needs can be easily fulfilled by installing relevant plugin.

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Benjamín Tillard

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Para una buena elección de un plugin es necesario identificar las funciones y características específicas que necesitas para tu sitio web, es de suma importancia tener muy en claro las funcionalidades que requieres, y hacer un análisis exhaustivo, para saber si el plugin elegido, cumple con todas ellas y si no, tener en claro cuáles y cuáles no.

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3 How to install plugins?

Installing plugins on your blog is usually a straightforward and speedy process. Depending on the platform, you can install plugins from different sources. For instance, most platforms have an in-built plugin manager that allows you to search, install, activate, and deactivate plugins from the blog's dashboard. Additionally, if you have access to your blog's files via FTP, you can upload plugin files directly to the plugin folder. Some plugins may require inserting code snippets into the blog's files such as the header, footer, or sidebar. For example, in Blogger, you can go to Theme > Edit HTML and paste the code where you want the plugin to appear.

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Anirudh Phadke

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Installing plugins is very easy. Most plugins require your Website to be on relevant active plan that makes it eligible to install plugin. In Wordpress platform, you can install a plugin by just a click. While using it might be little more difficult, most plugins will automatically work once it's installed. You can manage your plugins from its dashboard.

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4 How to manage plugins?

Once you have installed plugins on your blog, it is essential to manage them correctly to guarantee they function optimally and do not cause any issues. To do so, you should regularly update your plugins as the developers often release new versions to fix bugs, add features, and enhance security. Additionally, you should delete any plugins that you don't use or need to free up space and improve efficiency. It is also important to monitor your blog's performance with tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, or Pingdom. This will help you identify if any plugins are causing errors, warnings, or slowdowns so that you can address them or switch to better alternatives.

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5 How to benefit from plugins?

Plugins can offer many benefits for your blog, as long as you use them wisely and responsibly. You can customize your blog with plugins, adding features and functions that suit your niche, audience, and style. This includes changing the look and feel of your blog, by adding themes, widgets, and fonts. Plugins can also help you optimize your blog for search engines, by generating sitemaps, meta tags, and keywords. This can increase your blog's visibility, ranking, and traffic. Additionally, you can optimize your blog for speed with plugins that compress images, cache files, and minify code. Last but not least, plugins can help you engage your readers by adding social media buttons, comments, ratings, contact forms, multimedia galleries, polls and quizzes. This will boost your blog's reach, shareability and feedback.

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1 What are plugins?

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