When do we need to make new plugins?

  • Hi,

    When do we need to make new plugins? Why do we need to make new plugins? Isn’t wring themes enough to make new websites/blogs?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I’ve moved this out of Developing with WordPress as it’s not that sort of forum.

    You make a new plugin when you want to solve a problem and either no existing plugin addresses it or (best) you want to code a solution yourself.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Also, some things belong in themes, some in plugins. While you could drop code into a theme’s functions.php, there are things that you may want to survive a change of theme, such as post types, shortcodes, or custom taxonomies. Those should be put into a plugin.

    I tell people that you create a new plugin when you want to add new functionality.

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