When you are a blogger there are so many new things that it can get overwhelming to try to learn everything. You need to learn about tech, photography, business, networking, social media, writing, O M G. That’s why I decided to start these Tech Talks, so we can discuss all the tech-related side of blogging in a way that’s easy and quick to understand. If you have a WordPress Blog, something that I highly advise because WordPress rocks, then you probably have heard about Plugins and Widgets. If you haven’t heard about them before, don’t worry you are going to learn everything you need to know about them in this post. First things first, what’s a widget and what’s a plugin? WordPress Widgets: A WordPress widget is a precoded block of information that performs a specific function. Think of it as an area in your blog that looks a certain way and of building blocks that do specific tasks. A sidebar, for example, is usually a widgetized area. In that widgetized area, you have a search bar widget, a text widget, a categories widget and things like that. All the WordPress themes I code and design (make sure to check the WordPress Theme shop here!) come packed with a lot of Widget areas and widgets that way you can easily edit the content. WordPress Plugins WordPress plugins, on the other hand, are little packs of code that add new functions to your theme. Installing a plugin is really easy, you just need to head to your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Install > Activate. There are plugins for about pretty much anything you may need. There’s a Google Fonts plugin so you can easily change your blog fonts, an SEO plugin that helps you make your content Google friendly, you get the idea. What’s the real difference between a widget and a plugin? The main difference is that the widget performs something specific that your theme already knows. So in order for the widgets to look a certain way, your theme already comes packed with all that styling information. A plugin, on the other hand, add new functions or codes to your theme. They basically supercharge your blog. Hope knowing the difference between a WordPress plugin and a WordPress widget helps you understand better your blog.
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