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.
I am very pleased to announce that we have released the Simple Social Icons plugin for WordPress. Simple Social Icons is an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles.
With it, you can easily choose which profiles to link to, customize the color and size of your icons, as well as align them to the left or right, all from the widget form (no settings page necessary!).
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