A step by step tutorial discussing wordpress plugins installation methods.

1. HANDY WAYS TO INSTALL WORDPRESS
PLUGINS EFFORTLESSLY

2. WE ARE DISCUSSING FEW HANDY WAYS TO
INSTALL WORDPRESS PLUGINS EFFORTLESSLY
Install WordPress Plugin through the WordPress
interface
There are two ways to install WordPress Plugins
via WordPress interface.
 Automatically.
 Manually by upload method.

3. 1-AUTOMATICALLY
 Go to WordPress Admin Panel Dashboard »
Plugins. Click “Plugins” tab and then“Add New”.

4. AS YOU CAN SEE A SEARCH BAR IN THE SCREEN
CAPTURE GIVEN BELOW. TYPE IN THE NAME OF
PLUGIN AND CLICK “SEARCH”.

5. YOU CAN SEE A LIST OF PLUGINS, WE ARE LOOKING
FOR WORDPRESS SEO AND IT IS FIRST IN THE
GIVEN LIST. AS WE KNOW, WORDPRESS SEO BY
YOAST IS A POPULAR SEO PLUGIN. SO, WE’LL GO
FOR IT. CLICK ”INSTALL NOW”.

6. A POPUP WILL APPEAR SEEKING PERMISSION “ARE
YOU SURE TO INSTALL A PLUGIN”. CLICK OK.

7. ONCE THE PLUGIN SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED YOU
CAN SEE THE FOLLOWING SCREEN SHOWN IN
SCREEN CAPTURE. CLICK “ACTIVATE ”.
You can configure plugin settings in WordPress Admin
Panel Dashboard » Settings or some Plugins create a
separate tab where you can configure the settings
accordingly.

8. 2-MANUAL INSTALLATION VIA UPLOAD METHOD
IN THIS METHOD YOU CAN UPLOAD A PLUGIN WHICH YOU
HAVE DOWNLOADED INTO YOUR COMPUTER. HERE IS
WHAT YOU NEED TO FINISH MANUAL INSTALLATION.
FOLLOW THE ABOVE STEPS TO ACCESS PLUGINS TAB AND
THEN CLICK ADD NEW. TO START MANUAL INSTALLATION CLICK
“UPLOAD”.
BROWSE THE FILE AND THEN CLICK “INSTALL NOW” TO
UPLOAD A ZIP FILE.

9. ONCE PLUGIN UPLOADED YOU’LL SEE THE SAME
ACTIVATION SCREEN AS SHOWN IN ABOVE METHOD.

10. UPLOAD A PLUGIN VIA FTP CLIENT
 FTP is a program with which you can upload or
download the files from your computer to your web
hosting account.
 This method is not for beginners.
 If you have no idea how to use the ftp client please
do not choose this method.
 You need to access web hosting account via FTP
client and drag the plugin files in(public_html/wp-
content/plugins/) directory.
 Make sure you have extracted the zip files before
uploading them.

11.  Simply drag the unzipped Plugin files from left to
right in Plugins directory.
 You need to wait for a while until 100% files
uploaded.
 Once Installation completed go to WordPress »
Dashboard » Plugins and look for recently
installed plugin and activate it.

12. HOPEFULLY THIS TUTORIAL MAKES IT EASY FOR
YOU TO INSTALL WORDPRESS PLUGINS ON
YOUR OWN.
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