{"id":195,"date":"2018-02-28T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T08:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/?p=195"},"modified":"2018-02-28T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T08:50:34","slug":"how-to-install-and-activate-a-plugin-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/blog\/how-to-install-and-activate-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install and Activate a plugin in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, you need to download the plugin from the source (which will be a zip file). Next, you need to go to WordPress admin area and visit\u00a0<strong>Plugins \u00bb Add New<\/strong>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n<p>After that, click on the Upload Plugin button on top of the page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-196 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uploadpluginwpadmin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uploadpluginwpadmin.png 520w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uploadpluginwpadmin-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uploadpluginwpadmin-60x41.png 60w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uploadpluginwpadmin-150x104.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will bring you to the plugin upload page. Here you need to click on the choose file button and select the plugin file you downloaded earlier to your computer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-197 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pluginuploadpage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pluginuploadpage.png 520w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pluginuploadpage-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pluginuploadpage-60x31.png 60w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pluginuploadpage-150x78.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After you have selected the file, you need to click on the install now button.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress will now upload the plugin file from your computer and install it for you. You will see a success message like this after installation is finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plugininstalledmanual.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plugininstalledmanual.png 520w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plugininstalledmanual-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plugininstalledmanual-60x27.png 60w, https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plugininstalledmanual-150x67.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, you need to click on the Activate Plugin link to start using the plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, you need to download the plugin from the source (which will be a zip file). Next, you need to go to WordPress admin area and visit\u00a0Plugins \u00bb Add New\u00a0page. After that, click on the Upload Plugin button on top of the page. This will bring you to the plugin upload page. Here you need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluentthemes.com\/knowledgebase\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}