Christina Haris here
with WPbeginner.com in this video I'm going to show you a couple of ways you can
install WordPress plugins on your site plugins are a great way to extend the
functionality of your website
so knowing how you can do this will enhance your size capabilities
now before we begin make sure that you are the Administrator of
your site and this is a self-hosted wordpress site that you're working with
if your site is on WordPress.com you won't have the same capabilities that
I'm talking about. you also wont see the plugin Section
if you don't have admin capabilities on your site so make sure you do
it will save you a lot of frustration when checking this first
once you're logged into the site click on plugins from here
you can see other plugins that are on your site as you can see I only have the
two default plugins that come with WordPress you have akismet
which helps with spam comments and hello dolly which is a historical plugin that was first
added to WordPress just to show you what plugins are capable of doing
you also have a button to add a new plugin and and that's what we're going to talk
about right now
so click on the Add New and from the top you can see a different sections
by default or working on the search section: and this allows you to search
the WordPress.org's
plugin repository this is great because the plugins that are found in the repository
have been reviewed first to make sure there's no harmful code
the next section is for uploading the plugin from your computer
if you aren't sure what you want to install or you're just curious
you have a next few sections that show off feature plugins
and popular plugins you also have the newest plugins if you want to see what's
coming out
and finally you have favorites if you create a WordPress.org
account and you favorite your plugins from there
then you can click favorites from within side your website
and all your favorite plugins are available this is great if you create a
lot of sites in Word Press and you want to have a link to the plugin to use often
as you can see I'm not logged in so I won't see any here
but its still a nice thing to have when working with WordPress so go back to
the search section:
let's find and install a plugin we want to use
I'm going to type in WordPress SEO
it's a popular plugin that helps you with SEO on your site
you'll see a whole list if plugins that have the same keyword associated with them
on the left you want to check the author make sure your
installing the one that you want you can also look at the details for the plugin
this gives you all the information about the plugin and
as its shown in the WordPress.org repository
from here you can review the installation information
screen shots of the plugin the changelog and the Frequently Asked Questions
so once we're happy with reviewing the plugin I'll click Install
and you can either click Install from here or you can close this window out
click Install from here
now it will ask you are you sure say okay and you'll see it's downloading the plugin to your site
unpacking the zip files, installing the plugin from here
and you'll get a success or failure message and we got a success
message so that's good now we just need to activate it once I click activate
it shows in my plugin area and with this plugin
there's a Settings link over here now note
every plugin installed just a little bit differently which means that
for this plugin WordPress SEO has its own link here
but many can be found under settings or tools
so sometimes you have to hunt around to find the plugin settings
now I want to show you how to install a plugin from your computer
this is good if you purchased a plugin and it's not in the repository it's on your
desktop instead
now we want to click the Add New from the plugin section
click on upload I'll click Choose File
find the zip file then click
open then click Install Now
it will go through the same process as the other one did and now you have an
install plugin that you can work with
okay now we're gonna go over more advance way of uploading a plugin
this involves using an FTP client and connecting to your WordPress site
through the FTP client for this video I'll use FileZilla
its open source FTP client and free to download
now with this video I'm not covering how to connect
with FTP sinse that's outside the scope of what we're doing
over here are folder items on my computer
and I've navigated to the plugin location in order to upload the plugin
from my computer
to the WordPress site you have to make sure you unzip the plugin first
on the right is my site you'll see me I'm in the wp_content folder
and I want to upload my folder from computer to the plugins folder
so I'm going to click on the plugins folder from the plugin in Section you'll see all the
plugins for the site
right now I only have akismat now I want to upload hello dolly
I removed it by accident and I want to upload it again you can either
right click and select upload from FileZilla or you can drag the whole
folder
to the right and drop it in the white space I'm going to click Upload
now you can go to your site look at the plugin Section
and you'll see your new plugin there by default any plugin
uploaded it sits deactivated so you'll need to activate your plugin in from here
and once it's complete you can now work with your plugins to make your site more
awesome
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