What is a plugin? It is an additional feature that is compatible with the content management system, but does not come installed with the system.
What languages are used to write them? Most are written in PHP.
What types of jobs can they do? They do all sorts of things from change the UI of the widget page, adding more functions to websites, such as an interactive calendar, to even tracking SEO statistics.
What kinds of issues can arise? A clear issue that can arise is performance issues. Having too many plugins installed can slow down the webpage and shut down the functionality of the plugins.
How do you maintain them? They do have to be updated along with the latest version of WordPress, so staying on top of that in order to maintain there functionality is important.
I see a cool plugin on another site – what is it? If you view the code of the site, and ctrl+f to word search, you can find the plugins and themes that they are using by looking for wp-content.
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