How do I install a WordPress plugin on my WordPress blog?

We’ve had quite a few enquiries recently saying “I want to install such and such a plugin on my WordPress blog, how do I do it?” so I thought a blog post was in order.

There are 2 ways to install plugins – through your admin panel and ‘manually’ – below are WordPress’s own instructions regarding how to do both.

Through the admin panel is easiest – log in and then:

From the Administration Panels, click on the Plugin tab. Once you have uploaded a plugin to your WordPress plugin directory, activate it from the Plugins Management page, and sit back and watch your plugin work.

How To Install WP Plugins On Your WordPress Blog

Knowing How To Install WP Plugins On Your WordPress Blog, probably seems like childs play to most of you seasoned bloggers, but I wonder how many of you remember what it was like when you started out with WordPress..? Due to the fact I have just taken on a couple of excellent content writers for one of my other blogs & following a couple of lengthy chats, it suddenly brought home to me, just how much the more seasoned bloggers take for granted.

We simply accept that everyone knows what to do & that we all have equal knowledge when it comes to blogging, the truth is that this very often is not the case & for newcomers to blogging it can sometimes be very difficult trying to find out how to carry out what most of us see as simple mundane tasks.

How to install wordpress plugins

This guide is another in the Inside WordPress series and will show you how to install a WordPress plugin. While this is a relatively simple task it is one of fundamental importance to WordPress and is often overlooked. As such it is a potential cause of problems to beginners, and not being able to successfully install plugins will prevent you from accessing the very large world of WordPress plugins.

There are three ways of installing a WordPress plugin: