From its very first versions, WordPress has always been designed as a very open platform. This openness has been exemplified not only through its open source licensing and distribution model, but also its open plugin architecture, providing developers with the ability to deliver an even richer experience to its users.
While a basic WordPress installation provides a great amount of functionality that continues to expand from one release to the next, users often have the need to add one more feature to make it the perfect website management system. This is where the plugins come into play. They can fill this gap by augmenting or manipulating virtually any aspect of a WordPress website's display and administrative tasks.
Just like WordPress, plugins are written in the PHP programming language, which is structurally similar to more traditional languages such as C...
