Plug-ins are the mini-programs created as additions to programs bases, such as browsers. Plug-ins expand possibilities of the main programs, do work in them easier. To each program the set of special plug-ins is written - from plug-ins for viewing video to the plug-in allowing to trace traffic jams.
Close translation of the English word, is more right than two words plug in – to connect, be connected. The translation, in general, conveys sense of the term, but plug-ins are called much more often additions, expansions, additional modules, applications. Anyway, the plug-in is the mini-program expanding possibilities of the main program or facilitating work in it.
For each main program – the plug-ins. The expansions created for the browser cannot be applied to programs of graphic design or CMS engines of the websites. And vice versa.
Why to browsers plug-ins
All browsers which serve as conductors to the Internet world open a web of the page of the websites. Only open also anything else if on them additional applications, plug-ins are not installed. Some stand in the browser by default.
Plus - is always the choice. If you need any additions, then can enable them, having used the site of the choice of plug-ins. Every day there are new expansions and additions therefore the choice of programs assistants is huge.
From viewing video and reading documents in different formats; from listening of music and tracking traffic jams and weather in your region, to the analysis of the websites for the developer and the optimizer.
All browsers promptly develop, improve and accelerate. Means and plug-ins should be updated and improved in due time to remain useful mini-assistants to the user.
It is necessary to remember only one thing: if ""cover"" the browser with a huge number of plug-ins, it will become slow and slow. Put only those expansions without which it is impossible to do. Try not to complicate fast loading a web of pages. The high-speed performance is a main task of developers of browsers and therefore they are installed, so to speak "naked", with a minimum of the most necessary plug-ins.
Who what application will need, that also will put it. To anything info businessmen the browser with preset a flash - games, and are not necessary to the school student the plug-ins tracing dollar and euro exchange rate. Everyone will select something special.
Plug-ins for WordPress and other engines of the websites
All engines on which the websites are placed give the chance of installation of additional plug-ins. Especially it concerns the popular Word Press engine. A Word the Press - the grateful site for the blogger. It is free, simple, has a set of the plug-ins improving and simplifying work to the novice user.
It is insufficiently simple to install WordPress on the domain, it needs to be configured so that searchers saw it, indexed and advanced. For this purpose there are also plug-ins. Them much. There are plug-ins necessary without which correct work of the website will be complicated or is impossible at all, and there are plug-ins decorating appearance of the blog, raising its usability.
Plug-ins write to all programs - from graphic programs, to programs for creation of video and music. They expand possibilities of programs bases and do work with them more convenient and more comfortable.
If to you the plug-in for which ask to pay money met, google its free analog. Often happens that in ""box"" for sale unfair and enterprising "businessmen" pack what is offered in the general access free of charge by developers of plug-ins.
Before installing a new plug-in, study that it can and as far as it is necessary for you. The surplus of additions will not be useful to any program, whether it be the browser or the website.