HANDY WAYS TO INSTALL WORDPRESS PLUGINS

EFFORTLESSLY

WE ARE DISCUSSING FEW HANDY WAYS TO INSTALL WORDPRESS PLUGINS EFFORTLESSLY

Install WordPress Plugin through the WordPress interface

There are two ways to install WordPress Plugins via WordPress interface.

Automatically. Manually by upload method.

1-AUTOMATICALLY

Go to WordPress Admin Panel Dashboard » Plugins. Click “Plugins” tab and then“Add New”.

AS YOU CAN SEE A SEARCH BAR IN THE SCREEN CAPTURE GIVEN BELOW. TYPE IN THE NAME OF PLUGIN AND CLICK “SEARCH”.

YOU CAN SEE A LIST OF PLUGINS, WE ARE LOOKING FOR WORDPRESS SEO AND IT IS FIRST IN THE GIVEN LIST. AS WE KNOW, WORDPRESS SEO BY YOAST IS A POPULAR SEO PLUGIN. SO, WE’LL GO FOR IT. CLICK ”INSTALL NOW”.

A POPUP WILL APPEAR SEEKING PERMISSION “ARE YOU SURE TO INSTALL A PLUGIN”. CLICK OK.

ONCE THE PLUGIN SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED YOU CAN SEE THE FOLLOWING SCREEN SHOWN IN SCREEN CAPTURE. CLICK “ACTIVATE ”.

You can configure plugin settings in WordPress Admin Panel Dashboard » Settings or some Plugins create a separate tab where you can configure the settings accordingly.

2-MANUAL INSTALLATION VIA UPLOAD METHOD

IN THIS METHOD YOU CAN UPLOAD A PLUGIN WHICH YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED INTO YOUR COMPUTER. HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO FINISH MANUAL INSTALLATION.

FOLLOW THE ABOVE STEPS TO ACCESS PLUGINS TAB AND THEN CLICK ADD NEW. TO START MANUAL INSTALLATION CLICK “UPLOAD”.BROWSE THE FILE AND THEN CLICK “INSTALL NOW” TO UPLOAD A ZIP FILE.

ONCE PLUGIN UPLOADED YOU’LL SEE THE SAME ACTIVATION SCREEN AS SHOWN IN ABOVE METHOD.

UPLOAD A PLUGIN VIA FTP CLIENT

FTP is a program with which you can upload or download the files from your computer to your web hosting account. 

This method is not for beginners. If you have no idea how to use the ftp client

please do not choose this method. You need to access web hosting account via

FTP client and drag the plugin files in(public_html/wp-content/plugins/) directory.

Make sure you have extracted the zip files before uploading them.

Simply drag the unzipped Plugin files from left to right in Plugins directory.

You need to wait for a while until 100% files uploaded.

Once Installation completed go to WordPress » Dashboard » Plugins and look for recently installed plugin and activate it.

HOPEFULLY THIS TUTORIAL MAKES IT EASY FOR YOU TO INSTALL WORDPRESS PLUGINS ON YOUR OWN. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE VISIT WWW.BYTESWIRE.COM AND LEAVE A COMMENT THERE. WE’D LOVE TO HELP YOU.

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