5 things you shouldn't do with a wordpress plugin
DESCRIPTION
This presentation is meant to help you implement some common WordPress functionality in a manual way instead of using plugins. This keeps your valuable plugin juice free for the plugins that are more complicated.TRANSCRIPT
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Kelly Phillips
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I help small businesses owners take control of their website, turning it into a powerful tool to grow their business.
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Too many
Plugins
=
A slow
website@KellyPhillipsNC
How Many Plugins Can I have?
• Level of hosting
• Bulkiness of current
plugins
• Quality of code of
current plugins
Connect Google Analytics
Install Mailing List Forms
Implement Google Fonts
Add PayPal Buttons
Display Social Media Icons
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How dare you use a plugin for that!
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1Connect
Analytics
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http://google.com/analytics
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My theme doesn’t have a place for scripts. what now?
Get a better theme
OrCreate a child theme
and add the code to
header.php
(WPBeginner.com has a great tutorial)
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2Install
Mailing
List
Forms
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3Implement
Fonts
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http://Google.com/fonts
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My theme doesn’t have a place for scripts. what now?
Get a better theme
OrCreate a child theme
and add the code to
header.php
(WPBeginner.com has a great tutorial)
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4Add
PayPal
Buttons
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Tools>PayPal Buttons @KellyPhillipsNC
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5Display
Social
Media
Profile
Icons@KellyPhillipsNC
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yourfbpage" target="_blank"><img title="Facebook" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Facebook" width="32" height="32" /></a>
<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/yourpinterestpage" target="_blank"><img title="Pinterest" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Pinterest" width="32" height="32" /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/yourtwitterpage" target="_blank"><img title="Twitter" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Twitter" width="32" height="32" /></a>
</div>
Upload the images to your media library at exact display size.
Copy this URL
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yourfbpage" target="_blank"><img title="Facebook" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Facebook" width="32" height="32" /></a>
<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/your pinterest page" target="_blank"><img title="Pinterest" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Pinterest" width="32" height="32" /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/your Twitter page" target="_blank"><img title="Twitter" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Twitter" width="32" height="32" /></a>
</div>
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Now you can load more
plugins!(If you’re not too exhausted!)
Zzz…need…. more… plugins…. Zzz…
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