Themes is a look and feel of the Website and Plugins is an enhancing the features of the website with additional functionality by integrating plugins.

Themes

After Installing the WordPress and learning the important menus of dashboard area, the first step is to choosing themes.

We have 1000+ themes in WordPress and can be installed as per the requirement and choices. One good thing is each and every theme comes up with the documentation.

On the Right side of the Dashboard Menu area go to appearance and then click themes to search and choose that suits your site.

There are two types

1. Free Themes
2. Premium Themes

Free themes will have limited support, customization options, features and functionality.

So if you want more support, more professional, elegant, more customization and functionality options we need to discover it from premium WordPress themes.

There are lots of websites who offer premium themes. But one of the best website is themeforest.net, where u will get 1000’s of Premium themes for WordPress.

Some of the main categories we need to look into while selecting:

• Corporate
• Blog/Magazine
• E-Commerce
• Directory and Listings
• Education
• Retail
• Entertainment
• Real Estate
• Wedding and much more.

Plugins:

Enhance the features of the website with additional functionality by integrating plugins.

Once we install any theme, it automatically recommends some of the plugins needs to be integrated for additional functionality.

In WordPress there are 40000+ plugins.

On the right hand side of dashboard area click on plugins tool to search, install and activate it to extend or expand the functionality as per the requirement of project. Before activating any plugins please do check its functions and ratings.

Some of the best and most popularly used plugins are

• Page Builder by Site Origin:

Page Builder by Site Orgin is a free and most popular plugins in WordPress for page creation. It work with standard WordPress widgets in building and styling a page, also comes up with prebuilt layout where coding is not required.

In this we can create a layout by inserting rows, we can use prebuilt column and add a content using a Widget. It works with all themes in WordPress and comes with just a simple drag and drop options.

Documentation link to learn more about this plugins Page Builder Documentation.

• WooCommerce:

Woocommerce is a free E-Commerce plugins used to build online shop that allows you to sell anything online and give you complete control of your online store.

After Installing this you can find WooCommerce and products menu on right hand side of WordPress dashboard area.

From Products Menu we can Add, Categorize and View products and from WooCommerce Menu we can mange Stocks, Orders, Inventory, Reports. Accounts, Tax, Emails, Checkouts and much more.

You can learn more about integrating WooCommerce Setup here.

• Contact Form 7:

Contact Form 7 plugins allows you to create enquiry or contact form.

After installing this you will find the contact menu on the right hand side of the WordPress dashboard area.

Click on the contact menu and customize the form and mail as per requirement.

After creating the form you will find a code. Copy and paste this code on the website page, where you wish to place the contact form.

• W3Cache :

W3Cache plugins helps you to improve the speed of the website and increases the website performance to improve the user experience, this results in improving rank in search engine result page.

If Loading of your page is reduced, then there is a chance of visiting more pages from users.