WordPress has over 50.000 plugins. Many of them perform tasks you don’t really need plugins for. Very popular, 100% free and open source JS/CSS frameworks often offer a much more robust and complete solution to achieve what you are looking for when searching for specific add-ons for your WordPress site.
WordPress works very well with most JS/CSS frameworks. The vast majority of JS/CSS frameworks can easily be imported into WordPress without changing any php/css/js file, and without changing the default theme in WordPress. This website uses WPCode to add some libraries to the head-tag of this WordPress site.
WPCode at the rescue
The code that is currently added to the <head>-section of this entire website reads:
Functionality often covered by JS/CSS frameworks
The following functionality is often covered by JS/CSS frameworks and way too often WordPress users rely on plugins that are unreliable, expensive, annoying, insecure or they slow down a WordPress website:
- Social media integrations
- Popups
- Lightbox video/image galleries/silders
- Icon sets
- Scroll behaviour
- Enrich html tables
- Animations
- Navigation
- UX/UI design
- Custom form-controls
This website includes various JS/CSS frameworks and puts them at work in a WordPress website, using the default Twenty Twenty Four theme. Enjoy!