WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
Plugins
A course by Anyssa Ferreira , Designer and Web Developer
About the video: Plugins
Overview
“In this class, you will learn what plugins can do, how to get them from the official WordPress repository through the panel, how to evaluate them and install the chosen ones. Then, we will install and configure two types of plugins: one to create the portfolio features of the website; and another to add a new type of contact form block. We will create a portfolio project and a contact page to test them. ”
In this video lesson Anyssa Ferreira addresses the topic: Plugins, which is part of the Domestika online course: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch. Discover the entire process for easily publishing a custom web page.
Partial transcription of the video
“Plugins Plugins are WordPress add-ons that add new features to the standard system. With them, you can adapt your website to your needs. We will see? On the dashboard, go to Plugins, Installed plugins. Here you can see a list of the plugins installed on your website and the status of each one of them, whether they are active or not. Depending on how the installation was done, you may have some plugins pre-installed. To install plugins, click Add new. There are two methods for adding plugins to WordPress. We can install from the official repository, which are the ones that are already availa...”
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Course summary for: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
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Category
Web & App Design -
Software
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Areas
Digital Product Design, No-Code Development, Web Design, Web Development

Anyssa Ferreira
A course by Anyssa Ferreira
Anyssa Ferreira is a graphic design graduate and has worked as a web developer for over ten years. She won the first Kim Parsell Scholarship in 2015 from the WordPress foundation. She is an organizer for the WordPress community in Sao Paulo.
As co-founder of the studio Haste, she specializes in developing websites, systems, and plugins. She has collaborated on projects for major companies like Totvs, Companhia das Letras, Elo7, and Knewin. She also speaks at international conferences for web developers like WorldCamp Europe 2020.
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