Chapter 2: Installing and Activating Plugins
In This Chapter
- Installing WordPress plugins via the Dashboard
- Manually installing WordPress plugins
- Upgrading plugins
- Activating and deactivating plugins
- Uninstalling plugins
WordPress is an extremely versatile Web publishing solution. However, plugins can extend the WordPress features to do almost anything you want, except perhaps write your Web content. But how can you make use of the nearly 10,000 plugins found in the WordPress Plugin Directory? How do you remove plugins you no longer find useful? Fortunately, WordPress makes these tasks easy. In this chapter, we explore how to install, activate, deactivate, and uninstall plugins.
Get WordPress® All-in-One For Dummies® now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
