Easy Plugin Management with WordPress

Installing plugins within WordPress itself, rather than downloading them and re-uploading them to your hosting space manually has been around for some time now.  However, I don’t think many people have discovered this great feature that WordPress has to offer.  Let me guide you through installing a plugin using WordPress on your blog hosted here at Lunarpages.

Step one would be to login to your WordPress powered blog’s administrator section, usually located at:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/

Next, you want to click on the Plugins menu in the sidebar.  Once you are on the Manage Plugins page, check in the sidebar under Plugins for a link that says, “Add New”.  Click that link.

This will take you to the Install Plugins web page.  YOu have several options to choose from here.  The two most noticeable ones are the search box and the popular tags.  Here you can find the plugin you are looking for. 

Now, just search for the plugin type you need.  I typed in, “images” and got this screen returned to me:

There you have plenty of image related plugins to choose from.  Now if you select featured, popular, newest or recently updated – you will be taken to another plugin list that shows that type of plugin.  To install a plugin, just hit the, “Install” link under the action column that lines up with that specific plugin. 

A new window will pop up giving you a description of the plugin, and the ability to install that plugin by hitting the button labeled, “Install Now”.  No need for FTP clients, downloading and re-uploading.  WordPress takes care of it all.  When your done installing, you can then turn around and activate, tweak and configure the plugin you have just installed.

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