How To Install Plugin | WordPress Plugins | Themescorners Themes
How To Install Plugin | WordPress Plugins | Themescorners Themes is a very simple way of installing WordPress plugin just like installing WordPress Theme. But for the new user many of difficulty to install WordPress plugin. just like plugin not install properly, and server-side does not allow for uploading big files, and also user does not know how to do the installing plugin on the WordPress Site. For Example, WooCommerce plugin is used for making the online store in your WordPress Site and also contact form 7 is used for contact with the user and admin to send the mail and take the query. There are some ways to install a WordPress plugin to helpful for the beginners, which is a tell you in this post.
There are three ways to install the plugin in your site.
A) Install the plugin with the WordPress Plugin Search.
Dashboard -> Plugin -> Add New Plugin -> Search Plugin
Install the plugin with the WordPress Plugin Search is the easiest method to install the plugin on the WordPress site. It is very easy to use in the site, you just click the Dashboard and after that go to plugin and add a new plugin. you see the there are many of plugins show from the WordPress plugins. You can see the right corner of the page is the search bar for the search which plugin want to install on your site.
Install the plugin with the WordPress Plugin search use only for free WordPress Plugins. You can direct download the updates from the WordPress directly. And also you can update the theme from your site directly from the auto update.
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B) Install the plugin with the WordPress Plugin Upload.
Dashboard -> Plugin -> Add New Plugin -> Upload Plugin
Install the plugin with the WordPress Plugin Upload is also a good method for the install WordPress Plugin. You can download the plugin from the WordPress.org site https://wordpress.org/plugins/. Now go to Dashboard and after that plugin and click add a new plugin. You can see the option of the Zip file chosen from the system . You can browse the Zip file of a plugin and upload it. After that uploading you can install the plugin. It is an easy and safe way to installing the plugin on the site.
Basically, upload plugin mostly used for the premium plugin which was purchasing form the pro selling plugins. Because pro plugin is not installed by the search plugin so user used this method for the install Plugin.
C) Install the plugin with the using FTP
cpanel/wp-content/plugins/location
Generally, sometimes difficult to upload big size plugins from the WordPress plugin. Some server is not set to upload a bigger file. Generally, the server allows 2mb file on upload. You can increase it via your server settings. But if you don’t want to increase upload file limit, you can upload your plugin via FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Hosting provides you FTP access to your site. You can access it via FTP client software, like FileZilla. If you have such issue you have to use this method. You have to place your plugin file to /wp-content/plugins/location.
For premium plugins, whenever a new version of the plugin available, you can’t update it with above method. It generates, folder already exists error. To update such plugin, you have to delete older version and upload newer plugin. For this, you have to use FTP method.
You can also use File Manager from your site’s cpanel. But file manager only uploads files, not the folder. So you have to upload zip file first and then extract it.
No WordPress theme is perfect. One might have many additional requirements that a WordPress theme can’t provide. Then what should he do? Install WordPress Plugin can add extra functionalities to a WordPress site.
There are Some plugins Which are used more in the wordpress themes
a) WooCommerce
b) Yoast SEO
c) Contact Form 7
d) WP Editor
e) Google Analytics
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Conclusion
In this post we give the many methods too installing the plugin in you site. You can use any one method to install the plugin which is your requirement.
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