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Beginners Guide to WordPress Plugins

January 14, 2008 | Filed under: Tutorials

One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is the ability to use plugins to expand the capabilities of your blog or website. Since WordPress has such a large community of plugin developers, it means that you can make your WordPress website do pretty much anything you want it to. If you’ve ever thought about a feature that you wanted in WordPress, chances are that if you look around, you’ll find someone who has created a plugin to integrate that feature.

The problem is that many people don’t know how to go about installing plugin or think they are not technologically inclined enough to be able to. But these days most of the plugins available for WordPress only require one or two steps to get working so anyone can do it.

If you read my other tutorial about Upgrading WordPress then you will be familiar with the basics. You will need an FTP client to connect to your web space. If your host used cPanel, you can also use the file manager and upload plugins from there. Most plugins are installed in the same place, a folder called ‘plugins’ inside the wp-content directory.

To activate or deactivate a plugin, you just need to log into your WP admin and find Plugins in the top menu. This page lists all installed plugins.

The really great thing about the newest version of WordPress is that it will keep track of most of your plugins and let you know if they need to be updated.

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