Using WordPress Plugins
WordPress plugins allow bloggers to easily add additional functionality to their blogs. There are a huge number of plugins available that extend the functionality of WordPress.
What can you do with a WordPress plugin? Just about anything. There are plugins to block spam, help you publish a podcast, and to improve the performance of your WordPress blog. If you have some specific need that is not yet accommodated by the core WordPress code-base, chances are there’s a plugin to meet your needs.
This video is an introduction to working with WordPress plugins.
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Hi Peter – Let’s see if we can trouble shoot this. A few quick questions:
- when you say you transfered the files to contents > plugins > x, I assume you mean that you transfered them to /wp-content/plugins/ ?
- Can you see them on the plugins page? I’m not clear from your comment whether they are there and not active, or they aren’t visible on the plugins page at all.
- If they are visible, I’m assuming you’ve activated them. If they aren’t visible, then your problem is most likely that they are either in the wrong directory, or the permissions are still not quite right.
Hi Kirk – Your podcast on WordPress Plugins is useful and well done. I’m new to WP and am having trouble on this issue.
I had installed WP 2.3.2 then have transferred (FileZilla)
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To contents > plugins > X – They show on my host server as OK, I’ve made sure of the file permissions, 755 for directories, 644 for files – yet…
They do not appear in the wp-plugins administrator, to be activated, so I guess i’m missing something, very simple probably – what? Thank you for your time, this question must be an old one but new to me!