Master WordPress Plugins: Shortcodes Ultimate - The Basics
Master WordPress Plugins: Shortcodes Ultimate - The Basics
What is Wordpress and Wordpress Plugins?
WORDPRESS:
In this article I am going to answer the question "What are WordPress and Wordpress Plugins?" Maybe one of your children told you: "I'm gonna build a website with WordPress!" or maybe one of your colleagues said: "Well we could just simply use a wordpress website".
And you are like: "Yeah, that sounds cool! I know what a website is, but what is WordPress?" This article is all about answering that question.I have been building WordPress websites since 2004.
I have my own national hosting company and my web development agency, so I definitely know what WordPress is. Let's get started with the beginning. WordPress is a content management system. What is that? It's software that you can use.
It's a program on your computer which you can use to build a website. A content management - you can manage your content on your website. That is what WordPress is. The good news is: WordPress is totally free.
It is open source. It means that everyone in the world can create stuff to use in your WordPress website. To make it better, to enhance it, and to create new stuff other people didn't tought about.
So WordPress is this great system you can use to build your website. How does this work? WordPress has a interface which you can... you can install WordPress on your server. You need a server, that's a computer somewhere in the world where your website files are stored. So far so good right? Now let's dive in a little bit deeper.
Because within WordPress you can build anything you want. It's not just a system to create blogs.
You know, text with images above it. No, WordPress has grown into this gigantic website, you can build anything. You can even build your own e-commerce website where you can sell stuff to people.
You get a notification, people can pay you using WordPress. It's all in this system. But how does that work? Well WordPress itself is just a system, that has no styles or anything to it.
WORDPRESS PLUGINS:
WordPress out-of-the-box is extremely flexible and powerful but it can't do everything and nor should it. Just because one person wants a specific functionality on the website doesn't mean that everyone should have to have that.
So a plug-in is something that changes or adds to the functionality of WordPress. Now what kinds of things might you want to be doing you may ask? Well there are lots of amazing things that you can add to WordPress.
Right here is the WordPress.org plugins repository and as you can see there are over 50,000 plugins available for free. Now let's take a look at some of the kinds of things that can be done.
So here are some ecommerce plugins and there are a hundred and one pages like this, of different plugins that help you sell things on your website. WordPress doesn't do that out of the box but with the plug-in it can.
How about forums? Three hundred and thirty pages of different types of forum tools. If we search for community we end up with things that can help you build an online community similar to Facebook.
And if we search for forms we end up with these excellent plugins that can help you build a form on your site so that people can contact you or sign up for something. Now you may be asking "How can I install one of these?"
Well I will show you, if we go to our WordPress dashboard under plugins, add new. And here are a number of plugins available to you. Now what's notable is that this information is pulling directly from wordpress.org.
This is the same search, so if we search here we get the same results that we got over here on org. So to install one you simply click the "Install Now" button and WordPress takes care of the whole process of going to get it for you, downloading it, and installing it. Now it doesn't work until you click activate, and there we are.
Now there's a little thing up top that says "Thanks for installing Caldera Forms" and now on the left there's a new menu item for Caldera Forms. And right here you could create a new form. I already have one called "My Contact Form".
I'll tell you how to add it to a page. Now that I've installed the plugin there's a new button right here. I simply click it choose the form I want and insert form and there it is.
If I update my page and then view it there's my form right on my page. So just like that with a search and a few button clicks I was able to add functionality to WordPress and make it do forms and add a beautiful functional form right on my site.
WORDPRESS:
In this article I am going to answer the question "What are WordPress and Wordpress Plugins?" Maybe one of your children told you: "I'm gonna build a website with WordPress!" or maybe one of your colleagues said: "Well we could just simply use a wordpress website".
And you are like: "Yeah, that sounds cool! I know what a website is, but what is WordPress?" This article is all about answering that question.I have been building WordPress websites since 2004.
I have my own national hosting company and my web development agency, so I definitely know what WordPress is. Let's get started with the beginning. WordPress is a content management system. What is that? It's software that you can use.
It's a program on your computer which you can use to build a website. A content management - you can manage your content on your website. That is what WordPress is. The good news is: WordPress is totally free.
It is open source. It means that everyone in the world can create stuff to use in your WordPress website. To make it better, to enhance it, and to create new stuff other people didn't tought about.
So WordPress is this great system you can use to build your website. How does this work? WordPress has a interface which you can... you can install WordPress on your server. You need a server, that's a computer somewhere in the world where your website files are stored. So far so good right? Now let's dive in a little bit deeper.
Because within WordPress you can build anything you want. It's not just a system to create blogs.
You know, text with images above it. No, WordPress has grown into this gigantic website, you can build anything. You can even build your own e-commerce website where you can sell stuff to people.
You get a notification, people can pay you using WordPress. It's all in this system. But how does that work? Well WordPress itself is just a system, that has no styles or anything to it.
WORDPRESS PLUGINS:
WordPress out-of-the-box is extremely flexible and powerful but it can't do everything and nor should it. Just because one person wants a specific functionality on the website doesn't mean that everyone should have to have that.
So a plug-in is something that changes or adds to the functionality of WordPress. Now what kinds of things might you want to be doing you may ask? Well there are lots of amazing things that you can add to WordPress.
Right here is the WordPress.org plugins repository and as you can see there are over 50,000 plugins available for free. Now let's take a look at some of the kinds of things that can be done.
So here are some ecommerce plugins and there are a hundred and one pages like this, of different plugins that help you sell things on your website. WordPress doesn't do that out of the box but with the plug-in it can.
How about forums? Three hundred and thirty pages of different types of forum tools. If we search for community we end up with things that can help you build an online community similar to Facebook.
And if we search for forms we end up with these excellent plugins that can help you build a form on your site so that people can contact you or sign up for something. Now you may be asking "How can I install one of these?"
Well I will show you, if we go to our WordPress dashboard under plugins, add new. And here are a number of plugins available to you. Now what's notable is that this information is pulling directly from wordpress.org.
This is the same search, so if we search here we get the same results that we got over here on org. So to install one you simply click the "Install Now" button and WordPress takes care of the whole process of going to get it for you, downloading it, and installing it. Now it doesn't work until you click activate, and there we are.
Now there's a little thing up top that says "Thanks for installing Caldera Forms" and now on the left there's a new menu item for Caldera Forms. And right here you could create a new form. I already have one called "My Contact Form".
I'll tell you how to add it to a page. Now that I've installed the plugin there's a new button right here. I simply click it choose the form I want and insert form and there it is.
If I update my page and then view it there's my form right on my page. So just like that with a search and a few button clicks I was able to add functionality to WordPress and make it do forms and add a beautiful functional form right on my site.
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