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When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use a WordPress Plugin

Jerod Morris on September 12, 2012

The key to effective use of plugins is to deploy them only from properly vetted sources, and only when necessary.

Plugins should solve a specific problem or provide an essential function. They should not indulge our vanity or our desire for a “shiny new object”.

In this post, let’s get specific and discuss a decision-making framework for a specific type of plugin that can be applied across many different plugins.

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