WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 2

Installing and Managing Plugins

IN THIS CHAPTER

Installing WordPress plugins from the Dashboard

Manually installing WordPress plugins

Updating plugins

Activating and deactivating plugins

Deleting plugins

With more than 59,000 plugins available, you have a huge number of options for customizing your site. Book 7, Chapter 1 details what types of plugins are available and where to find them. In this chapter, you start putting these plugins to use. This chapter is dedicated to helping you install, activate, deactivate, update, and delete plugins.

Installing Plugins from the WordPress Dashboard

When you find a plugin on the WordPress Plugins page (https://wordpress.org/plugins/; see Book 7, Chapter 1) that you want to install, you can do so directly from the Dashboard. (If you find a plugin that isn’t in the Plugins Directory, you have to install it manually. See the following section, “Manually Installing Plugins.”)

WordPress makes it super-easy to find, install, and then ...