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One thing I just remembered that you might struggle with is applying patches which is how you install "extensions" in most suckless software including DWM. Do you know how to use Git or some other version control system? If you don't know Git but have used Subversion or Perforce or something then it should be fairly easy to pick up but if you haven't used version control ever then resolving conflicts between patches might be a little tricky.
I've used git before