How To Install a WordPress Plugin (This is Filezilla Method) Video Part I

There are two ways to install a WordPress Plugin: the first way is manually, using an FTP client such as Filezilla, or automatically through the WordPress Dashboard. This video covers the former.

This is the first part of a two-part series of screencast how-to video tutorials about how to install a WordPress Plugin.

If you use an FTP client like Filezilla to upload a WordPress Plugin to your website, you will need to download Filezilla first. You can find Filezilla online by doing a search in Google for "filezilla". The next thing you will do is configure your Filezilla FTP client with your websites. Once you have that set up, then you open up your remote folders, and open up your local folders to find a location of the Plugin that you've downloaded from their respective Plugin site.

Remember that if you're manually uploading a WordPress Plugin using Filezilla always used the unzipped format. Never use the zipped format. Any time you download a WordPress Plugin from the Internet or from the WordPress Plugin Directory, it's always downloaded to your computer zipped up. I use a program called when WinRAR; it's a free, file compression software.

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[onlineislamicacademy]

plugin tab is not exist in my dashboard

tell me how can i fix it?

[pluginforwordpress]

@onlineislamicacademy what version of WordPress are you using?

[Mrgreatestfreakout]

Ok, you can skip this video to 8:10 to get the point or in ur FTP, goto wp-content then plugin folder, just drop down ur plugin there and that's it

[pluginforwordpress]

@Mrgreatestfreakout Thanks for the head's up on that. It was meant to be a complete understanding about how this works for people that don't know much. But power-users like yourself need a more direct approach.

[sambaloelek1]

straight forward please.... this is way to much back and for at the beginning, I'm getting confused and say good bey....

[pluginforwordpress]

@sambaloelek1 Thanks for watching the video. As I told @Mrgreatestfreakout, I'll be producing a lot more videos in the near future. Please come back soon and see.

[Qzyxya]

@pluginforwordpress Im in his situation too. How do I upgrade? I just went to their site a few days ago and clicked join and whatnot.

[pluginforwordpress]

@Mrgreatestfreakout LOL, I agree guys this was too much back and forth. I'll be releasing a bunch more videos about WordPress Plugins soon, so please stay tuned. I'm also getting better video screencast software as well so it should be very clear. Thanks for watching.

[Mrgreatestfreakout]

Lol I agreed, Next time just jump on to the point plz