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WordPress Top Plugins
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WordPress Top Plugins

by Brandon Corbin
September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
254 pages
5h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Activating your plugin

Now that we have installed the plugin on the server, either by using Cyberduck on the Mac, WinSCP on Windows, or old school SSH, we still have one more step to go, namely, to activate the plugin.

To activate our plugin, we will first need to visit our plugin browser by expanding the "Appearance" tab and clicking on "Plugins". The plugin browser will display all of the plugins that are currently installed—inactive plugins have a light gray background while active plugins are denoted with a white background.

Once you have located the plugin you just installed, click the "Active Plugin" link. WordPress will now go through the steps needed to get that plugin ready and roaring.

Once your plugin has been activated, you will need ...

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