Title: What do Plugins do in general Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # What do Plugins do in general * [Kasiviswanathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kasiviswanathan/) * (@kasiviswanathan) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-do-plugins-do-in-general/) * I have a small PHP application that need additional support of style.css and myapp.js. I wish to use this application in WordPress generated web pages, post, etc. * If I’m not wrong, The solution is to create a plugin and provide a Shortcode [ my-plugin] for wp users. * My question is do plugins are the solution? Can Shortcode [my-plugin] provide hook to add .css and .js file to the of wp generated webpages? * I’m new to WordPress world. * Thank you. The topic ‘What do Plugins do in general’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [action](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/action/) * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/) * [hook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hook/) * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [Kasiviswanathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kasiviswanathan/) * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-do-plugins-do-in-general/) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics