Installing a new plugin is so easy now in Wordpress 2.7.
Things you’ll need to know before starting:
- Your username and password for your wordpress blog
- Your username and password for your web server
That’s all you’ll need to install any wordpress plugin listed on the plugins directory of Wordpress.org.
Here are the steps:
1) Login to your WordPress blog at http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin.
2) Scroll down the page until you see the tab labelled ‘Plugins’ and click it.
3) Click ‘Add New’
4) If you know the name of the plugin, type it in. If not, search for what kind of plugin you’re looking for, e.g. ‘Comments’ or ‘Popular Posts’ etc.
5) Click the plugin that you want to install or find out more information about.
6) Click ‘Install Now’
7) This is where you’ll need to type in your web server username and password to allow the plugin to install automatically. Then click ‘proceed’.
If all things went well, you should see a message like this. Click ‘Activate Plugin’ and you’re done!
So now you know how to install plugins to your WordPress blog.
N/B: Remember to read through the details provided by the plugin creator, as some plugins require a little bit of modification to the .php coding of your blog.
