5 Things You Shouldn't Do With A WordPress Plugin

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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.

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Kelly Phillips

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Too many

Plugins

=

A slow

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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

Google

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

Google

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

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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/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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