If you’re interested in learning more about how to beef up your knowledge about building WordPress plugins, Phil Derksen offers some keen insights. There are some great links to learning resources and developers tools that are sure to come in handy. Those plugins will allow you to customize, modify or enhance your site. Plugins are brilliant because they allow you to avoid having to change your site’s core programming.

In fact, plugins are one of the main reasons why WordPress is so popular and why it powers millions of websites and blogs around the world. It allows users to extend WordPress for just about any purpose possible.

Here are the benefits of WordPress plugins,

#1. You can change the look, feel, design and layout to your heart’s desire. Modifications can be made for archives, calendar, events, navigation and styles and randomness.
#2. Create plugins for audio and video.
#3. Create plugins that can enhance your posts. Formatting, editing, and other related issues are still important.
#4. Create and install miscellaneous plugins that show weather forecasts or other preferred information.

One of the things that helps drive the growth of WordPress is that it’s open source. Anyone can add to its amazing abilities. That means it can only get better and better. The only big concern is that be kept simple for new users. Sophisticated developers and users have the ability to push its sophistication through the roof. This could come at the cost of “approachability” for anyone who’s non-tech savvy.