How to install plugins & configure widgets

WordPress plugins are small apps, almost always free, that add to the functionality and usability of your site.

Widgets are small applications that are designed to display data in your blogs sidebar(s) – we have included a video in this tutorial on how to configure and use widgets as well as plugins.

This is our list of 14 must have plugins for WordPress, specially selected based on what we have tried and tested:  

All these plugins are installed and in use on this blog.

Please review the video on how to install WordPress plugins and then check out our recommendations below:

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