A Brief History of PluginsWordCamp Phoenix 2012Andrew Ryno

What is a plugin?

What can plugins do?

“Hello, Dolly”

SEO

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BACKUPS

Plugins are cool.How do you get them?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

18,480 pluginsand counting

define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );define( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true );define( ‘SAVEQUERIES’, true );

1. Rename a plugin folder.2. Does the site work now?3. If not, rename another one. If it does, that plugin is bad.4. Go from there.

Use the support forums.http://wordpress.org/support/

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Andrew Ryno@andrewrynohttp://andrewryno.com/