The plug -in is great -this is the fact. They make incredible things possible through WordPress, and can increase your website or woocommerce store to a new height.
But the plug -in may also have problems. Mal malicious updates, unbet code, incompatibility between two extensions … Blink, you can run from completely normal to completely unable to run. Not to mention how easy it is to fall into the installation
more plug -in, which has its own shortcomings.
Before installing any plug -in, you should evaluate it based on the pre -established standard list. This evaluation does not need to take a long time, you can set your own standards, because it is not important to others that important things to you. However, a few minutes of due diligence can avoid headaches for several hours, let alone customer complaints and sales loss.
Today, we will share something that should be done when evaluating WordPress plug -in for your Woocommerce store. Continue reading to understand more information about this process and the steps you should take.
why evaluation is important [ 123] According to the latest statistics, there are more than 39,000 free plug -ins on WordPress.org, and there are many other advanced extensions on websites like us. Although the plug -in authors, volunteers, and users like you are evaluating the quality of these products every day, it is impossible to find
every
error before publishing or updating.
The plug -in conflict is particularly difficult to capture. Although the common environment can be tested -for example, using the latest version of WordPress and popular cache plug -ins, or using our own extension and theme Woocommerce -but cannot predict everyone’s needs and behavior . This is why you may encounter a unique problem that no one has seen before, or encounters a problem caused by an outdated expansion procedure occupying the same space as the newly updated expansion program.
This is the reason why the new plug -in assessment and testing new plug -ins. Of course, installing a plug -in and assuming that it will work and everything will be better. But if it is not -if it is not a test, or it is even the East that has caused known problems beforeWest -you may notice that your store has errors or slowness. Or worse, plug -in conflicts may cause your entire website to be paralyzed, causing your waste of precious time to try to restore it.
Let’s review some steps you should take to correctly evaluate it with Woocommerce Plug -in. 1. Verify its legitimacy
With the development of WordPress, the degree of popularity of plug -in is also getting higher and higher. The essence of open source development allows almost anyone to create expansion and release online. The free plug -in of the hosting on WordPress.org must be reviewed, tested and approved before adding to the website, but some independent developers do not necessarily support this strict standard.
If you find a plug -in sound like a bee’s knee, first check whether it is available on wordpress.org. A simple search should be able to do it. If it is not -or if it is a high -level plug -in, that is, pay -you need to do more factual examinations.
Can you find the plug -in you want in the search?
You can find a comment on each plug -in or creator through Google search. The main WordPress news and viewpoint blogs sometimes review new or creative plugins, so you can often find valuable information or feedback in their posts and comments.
In addition to these blogs, please pay attention And for feasible solutions. For example, if you are considering using a specific SEO plugin, it may be recommended as a well -known tool in the SEO tool list. This helps to establish legitimacy, although first -hand experience is always better. If you can’t find any comments on the plug -in, its developers or recommendations, then you should act with caution. This plug -in may be brand new. In this case, you can always give it a chance on the stage (about more information, see the last section). However, if you have a strange feeling, or the website looks strange, then there is no harm to quitting and finding better review solutions at all. Read the content of the related plug -in
When you find some feedback, please read it carefully
. Please pay attention to the following:
General positive or negative trends -if 50 people say \”good effect\” and one person says \”bad\”, you may believe that these 50 positive evaluations
Any theme, other plug -in or other plugins or other plugins or other plugins The specific conflict or problem named WordPress/Woocommerce version named
plug -in helping others to improve the specific website or solve the problem, confirmed
and any contact with support/developers (or whether or not is (or not is it or not? ) Solving their problems
If the feedback you see is not positive, you may need to find other solutions.
Another thing to pay attention to is the feedback prompt to solve another problem, but not necessarily not necessarily It is the problem you have. If your store is very slow, the cache plug -in may be helpful, but it may not help you solve the fundamental cause of slowness. So Pay attention to the real role of the plug -in before you advance , otherwise you may have to try multiple solutions to use it correctly. Check the vulnerability
Guarantee that this step only takes a few seconds. Search for your plug -in in the WordPress plug -in vulnerability database. This will tell you whether the plug -in you choose is easily affected by any known problems , such as SQL injection or zero -day vulnerability in April this year.
Vulnerability examples from the database.
The loopholes occur, and most developers will quickly repair them and issue updates (and send notices to customers). Therefore, if you find that your plug -in has been repaired here, it is normal. However, if you find without
, please avoid it.
These known vulnerabilities may make your store face risks, so even if a plug -in looks You can make you earn thousands of dollars,
Don’t take risks . However, it may be worth letting developers know their names in this list -because it is maintained by volunteers, so the information may always be incorrect and they only need to update it. Tracking support options So far, does your plug -in look pretty good? It sounds more successful than it now? Very good -but who would you find if you have a problem?
Time Find support or contact information of related plug -ins . If the plug -in hosting is on WordPress.org, you can view the support forum there (for example, here is the Woocommerce Forum). If not, you should be able to find information about free or paid support options, or at least the contact information of developers who make plugins.
If you can’t find any supporting plan or options for formal declaration, it may be worthy of to developers Send an email containing test questions to view their response speed. You can also search online to check if there are any other informal support positions -for example, regularly discuss the WordPress forum for regular plug -in. Or you can run it by your own developers, if you have, see if they can help you.
Intestinal examination: Do you really need a plug -in? You can install a plug -in. But at this stage, You should ask yourself if you really need it . For WordPRess users, searching for a plug -in that sounds that sounds our problems or improves our website, install it and adjust the settings until it achieves the effect we want. But sometimes it cannot work as we want, so we will never use it anymore. Or we often use it, but never realized that it is a solution that can be completed in another way -a simpler way, a way that does not require any code.
This is actually what happened when organizing this article. There is a plug -in to automatically check whether the plug -in you install is existed and marked with any known problems. However, you don’t need to install a plug -in to monitor your plug -in (yikes), you just need to search for the vulnerability database.
No, this is not automatic. But it reduces the pressure of your server and it is a less plug -in you must maintain. So this is why we do not recommend it. In this case, \”think outside of installation\”.
Although there are too many plug -ins not necessarily harmful to the Woocommerce store, it still causes the potential conflict of server pressure, slow behavior, and renewal time. So before the installation, ask yourself: \”Is there any other way to do this?\”
Search for what you want to do and \”WordPress\”. Therefore, if you plan to install a plug -in to make your website faster, please search on Google to search for \”Accelerating Website WordPress\” or \”Improving Website Speed \u200b\u200bWordPress\” and other content. Then read the results to see if there are any non -plug -in solutions that can be tried first.
Please note that if your alternative method involves edit theme files, you should create a sub -theme; If it involves the editor’s core wordpress file, in this case, you should actually insist on using plug -ins. But there is no disadvantage to consider different choices -it may save you a lot of time and even save some money.
Last step: Test
If you have a good reputation plug -in after all, you can cooperate well with Woocommerce, and you can’t find any other ways to complete it to complete What you want to do, continue to install it. If you have a large, popular or high -traffic shop, You should consider creating a temporary site, you can install, deploy and test new plug -ins, and then add it to your you Real -time store . This can help you understand the working principle of the plug -in and solve any potential errors or problems in advance.
If you do Before using the plug -in within the range, testing the plug -in on some small visits (or even hidden pages) is still a good idea, if you can. According to the use of the plug -in, this may be impossible, but please try to limit its range until you are sure that there is no big conflict. You can even try to install and activate it in a slower time period (such as early morning) to minimize the sense of contact or potential frustration of any customer’s contact or potential frustration. Plug -in assessment briefly
Let’s take a look at these steps again. To evaluate the plug -in you want to use with the Woocommerce store, you should follow the following steps: Verify the legitimacy —— to ensure that developers and plug -in signed [ 123]
Reading Comment
—— Find positive feedback
Check the vulnerability
—— Avoid using any plug -in using any unsolved security problems
Tracking support – If you need it, can anyone help you?
Intuition check -You really needs a plug -in, or can you do it in another way?
Test —— Deployment deployed on your temporary site or during a quiet period to review and implement any problems
You will implement these steps, you will be executed, you will be executed, you will be executed. Be able to thoroughly review each new plug -in you encounter and determine whether it is suitable for your store. You may eventually cancel some expansion that sounds good at first … but in the long run, you can avoid one or two headaches!
If it follows these six steps, it still looks good, it Please insert it! (Image source: Pulpolux !!!)
We hope that this can help you choose better plug -in for your WOOOCOMMERCE website, and even choose your WordPress website. Are there any questions about the assessment plug -in? Or do you have any suggestions for you to view other ways of plug -in? Let us know in the comments below that we always like to receive your letter!
You can find a comment on each plug -in or creator through Google search
