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Plugins in the WordPress file structure

Plugins in the WordPress file structure - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress: Everything about Plugins

Plugins in the WordPress file structure

- [Instructor] All a website is, is a series of files, named and sorted in a certain way that a browser can read and display to a user. The WordPress sites are absolutely no different. The WordPress file structure looks something like this. It's a series of files and folders. If you download a WordPress site to your computer this is what you can expect to see in your finder. Or if you visit a hosting account, you can see this in whatever file manager is available to you, but basically, WordPress will always look like this, give or take a few files. When you add things to your WordPress site like plugins and themes, more folders and more files are being added to this big chunk of files. Let's find the plug-ins. You'll always be able to find them by starting here in the public underscore HTML folder and then going to the WP content folder and then the plug-ins folder. Inside this plug-in you'll find all the plug-ins that are…

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