How to Install a WordPress Plugin in 2022– Step by Step Guide
In this blog post, I will take you through how to install a WordPress Plugin in 2022 with an easy step-by-step guide.
If you are new and you just get your first WordPress site, then it’s time to make your site more functional.
With WordPress plugins, you can bring life to your WordPress site.
Plugins are there to add more functionality to your site.
Plugins are generally a piece of code. When you install and activate a plugin, it integrates itself to your WordPress site and extends your site’s functionality.
Now let’s dive into the practical and get to see how to install a WordPress plugin on your WordPress website.
How to Install a WordPress Plugin from WordPress Plugin Store?
Step – 1: Log in to your WordPress Admin Panel
You can simply log in to your WordPress site by adding /wp-login.php/ right after your domain to find the log-in page.
Step – 2: On your WordPress dashboard, you will find the panel with options on the left side. From there, click on Plugins.
Step – 3: Click on Add New button to add a new plugin to your WordPress site.
Step – 4: Search the plugin that you wanted to add to your site.
Step – 5: Here I’m going to install the WP Show posts plugin.
Step – 6: Now click on the Install button to install the plugin.
Step – 7: After the plugin gets installed, you need to activate the plugin. Click on Activate to activate the plugin.
Step – 8: After this action, you can see the plugin has been activated and listed on your plugin dashboard.
This is how you can install and activate a plugin on WordPress from the WordPress plugin library.
Now it’s time to show you how you can install and activate a plugin from your computer that you have downloaded from other sources.
How to Install a WordPress Plugin from Your Computer?
Sometimes you require to add some premium functionality to your WordPress site. And all the plugins available on the WordPress plugin store, are basically free, and may in most cases not provide what you need.
And at some point, you need to buy a premium plugin from your respective site and then install it to your WordPress site to get the functionality that you were looking for.
So, to install such a plugin, you need to upload it to your WordPress site and then install it.
This is how you will do this,
Step – 1: Click on Plugins from the left sidebar panel on your WordPress dashboard.
Step – 2: Click on Add New.
Step – 3: Now click on Upload Plugin.
Step – 4: Click on Choose File and then browse the plugin from your computer and add it.
Step – 5: After adding the plugin, you will see the plugin name has appeared. Now all you need to do this click on Install Now.
Step – 6: Wait for a moment and let the plugin be installed. You will shortly see a message that your plugin has been installed. Now click on the Activate Plugin button to activate the newly installed plugin.
Wrapping up:
Now you know how to install a WordPress plugin. After installing a plugin, you need to set it up to your according.
On some plugins, you can access their settings from the plugin dashboard.
And some plugins will automatically create a section on your WordPress sidebar panel. You can just simply access their all settings from the sidebar panel.
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