how to install a WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugin installation:
WordPress has a lot of plugins available to improve the functionality of your website/blog. Yoast is one of the most useful plugins for all WordPress blogs/websites. Similarly, many other useful plugins are also available.

In this post, we are going to discuss how to install WordPress plugins on your WordPress blog.

How to Install a WordPress Plugin on Your WordPress Blog:

You can install plugins on WordPress using two methods. The first method is installing plugins from your Dashboard manually, and the second method is downloading plugins from the WordPress plugin directory and uploading it to your WordPress site.

Follow below steps to install plugins on your WordPress blog.

Step 1 : Go to WordPress Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Plugins

Step 3 : Click on Add New

Step 4 : Enter the plugin name in the search plugins box to find the plugin.

Step 5 : Click on "Install Now" and then click on "Activate" to add the plugin to your WordPress.

Like this, you can add plugins to your WordPress blog. If you have a custom plugin and want to install it, click on the 'Upload Plugin' button on the Plugins page and install it on your WordPress.

Another method to install a plugin on your WordPress: 

Before going to install plugin, first download plugin from WordPress plugin directory.
 
Step 1 : Go to WordPress Dashboard

Step 2 : Click on Plugins

Step 3 : Click on Add New

Step 4 : Click on Upload, Browse file and upload it.

Step 5 : After installing plugin, click on Activate Plugin to add to your WordPress.

Using these two methods, you can easily install plugins on your WordPress. You can also install plugins through FTP, but compared to that, the above two methods are safer and easier.

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