Installing WordPress Plugins
Matthew Gabriel
Last Update 6 months ago
Installing plugins is a great way to increase the functionality of your site. It’s also very easy, once you get the hang of it.
WordPress plugins can be installed in several ways:
- Free plugins from the official WordPress repository can be installed via Plugins > Add New in your wp-admin area.
- Any plugin can be installed by uploading it as a zip archive via Plugins > Add New > Upload in your wp-admin area.
- Plugins can be installed via FTP (with a client like FileZilla.)
Have you met your new Plugins Manager?
Visit the new Plugins manager in your Hub to install, delete, activate or deactivate any plugins from SWS or wordpress.org, on any or all of your connected sites.
PRO TIP FOR SAFARI USERS
The Safari browser automatically unzips archive files that you download to your computer. This means that any .zip plugin file you download is automatically unzipped and must be zipped again before you can upload it to your WordPress site. You can change this default behavior though by following this guide.