1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:01,170 Welcome back. 2 00:00:01,170 --> 00:00:07,290 Now while themes change the look of our site in order to change what our site does or to change the 3 00:00:07,290 --> 00:00:11,920 functionality we need to use what WordPress calls plug ins. 4 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:19,200 And if you go to the left hand side menu and you go to the plugins area and click the link it will take 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,280 you to all of the plugins that are already installed. 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,700 And one of the things that you'll notice is something that was discussed at the very beginning of the 7 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:30,620 course and it is the Kismet plug in. 8 00:00:30,630 --> 00:00:34,110 And you'll notice that the Kismet plug in what it does is it blocks spam. 9 00:00:34,110 --> 00:00:38,370 So one of the things that you're WordPress site does is it blocks spam. 10 00:00:38,970 --> 00:00:44,820 If you want your WordPress site to do more what you'll have to do is to add plug ins to it in order 11 00:00:44,820 --> 00:00:46,980 to change the functionality. 12 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:51,480 So in order to get started looking for plug ins what you're going to do is click the Add new button 13 00:00:55,470 --> 00:01:00,930 and what you're going to notice right away is that WordPress is going to give you some featured plug 14 00:01:00,930 --> 00:01:04,210 ins just as we saw before with the themes. 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:11,790 WordPress will tell you about very popular plug ins just as it did with the themes. 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,680 It will also tell you about recommended plug ins. 17 00:01:17,770 --> 00:01:24,670 Now one of the best ways in order to find good plug ins is to start by searching inside of the WordPress 18 00:01:24,670 --> 00:01:25,960 dashboard. 19 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:32,530 So for example if you wanted to add Google Analytics which is a way to keep track of your site statistics 20 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:43,620 and traffic you would go to the search plugins area and type in Google Analytics once you typed it in. 21 00:01:43,750 --> 00:01:44,410 Click enter 22 00:01:47,650 --> 00:01:53,560 and your dashboard will begin to show you plug ins that will be options for you to install on your WordPress 23 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,340 site. 24 00:01:54,340 --> 00:02:00,400 Now one of the things that you can do in order to narrow down your choices is to start looking at the 25 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,100 actual reviews and you'll notice that this one had six hundred thousand installs and thirty eight people 26 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:07,020 reviewed it. 27 00:02:07,030 --> 00:02:11,140 This one has twenty nine reviews and had twenty thousand people view it. 28 00:02:11,170 --> 00:02:12,680 So you're getting the idea. 29 00:02:12,910 --> 00:02:19,360 You can find a plug in by going through these plug ins and figuring out which one has the best reviews 30 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,390 and which one you are the most comfortable with. 31 00:02:22,420 --> 00:02:27,070 So let's take a look at this one and decide to install it. 32 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:33,560 It has good reviews and it has a fairly high number of installations so we can then click install. 33 00:02:33,610 --> 00:02:42,310 Now you'll see WordPress going through the installation process and we can then click activate plug 34 00:02:42,310 --> 00:02:48,280 in WordPress will take a few minutes to get it installed and then you'll notice now that the Google 35 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:54,340 Analytics counter tracker is now added to our plugins area so you might ask what can you do now. 36 00:02:54,370 --> 00:02:56,480 So how do you customize this plug in. 37 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,810 Well whenever you install a new plug in the first thing you'll do is you'll go to the settings area 38 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:09,280 and you were going to look for a link something that is close to what you just installed and you'll 39 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,710 see here it says analytics counter 40 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:21,440 and this will give you all of the details that you'll need in order to customize your plug in. 41 00:03:21,450 --> 00:03:27,150 Now in some cases you'll find that menu in the tools or other times within posts and pages but typically 42 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:33,140 you'll find the details of a plug in inside of the settings area. 43 00:03:33,140 --> 00:03:36,330 Now there are all kinds of plug ins to change the functionality. 44 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:44,050 And if we go back to the install plug ins we can take a look there and once again once we're here we're 45 00:03:44,050 --> 00:03:52,350 going to click add new and just by taking a look at some of the featured plug ins we can see what other 46 00:03:52,350 --> 00:03:56,500 people are doing with their site and other things that people are taking advantage of. 47 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:03,830 For example some people are using a forum other people are causing their site to run faster. 48 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:11,770 If we look at some of the popular themes some people are doing things like adding custom fields. 49 00:04:11,820 --> 00:04:16,870 Some people are doing search engine optimization. 50 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Some people are displaying their galleries. 51 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:25,670 And so these are going to be ideas that you can use in order to determine what you can do to make your 52 00:04:25,670 --> 00:04:28,460 WordPress site everything that you want it to be. 53 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:30,530 Now your word parasite can be more than a blog. 54 00:04:30,530 --> 00:04:36,050 It can be a business site but it will require some customization such as a kind of customization that 55 00:04:36,050 --> 00:04:43,160 you're looking at such as a kind of customization that you're looking at in the plug in Section OK. 56 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:44,110 So with that thanks. 57 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,610 And I will see you in another video.