If you have moved to WordPress, then you should know that plugins can be a real help in your WordPress journey.
You can find thousands of plugins that do the job, respectively. Both types of plugins are available, both premium and free.
You can do almost anything with the help of plugins. You can add tables, optimize pages, shortcodes, and whatnot. Moreover, a plugin can install AdSense on a WordPress blog as well. So it is important to know how to install a plugin in WordPress for any beginner.
Let us move on and get into action. It is not a painful job at all; we are just a few clicks away.
There are three ways to do so: via search, by uploading, and also manually by using the FTP client and pushing the file to the wp-content plugins directory.
The first two ways are the simple and popular ones. But we are going to look at all three of them.
How To Install a Plugin in WordPress via Search
Step 1. From the WordPress Dashboard, navigate to the plugins area.
Step 2. Click on Add New to add a new plugin.
Step 3. Enter the desired keyword in the plugin search box. Take better insights from the below image.
Step 4. Now click on the Install Button, and then click on Activate to get it to start working.
There we go; we have installed the plugin successfully with the first method.
Now let’s move in and check the second method as well.
How To Install WordPress plugins by uploading
Like the first method, this is also an easy one. But here we should already have downloaded the desired plugin, which comes in .zip format. Let us start if you have already done so.
Step1:. Navigate towards the plugin area from your WordPress dashboard.
Step2. Click on Add New, same as above.
Step3. Click on the upload plugin, and now browse the desired plugin .zip file from your local machine.
Step4. Click on Choose File and browse the desired plugin .zip file from your local machine.
Step 5. Once the file is imported, Click on the Install Button.
Now your required plugin will get installed in a few seconds.
Step 4. Then click on Activate, once installed.
In case you would like to change the setting of the plugin, it can be accessed from the plugin area. Here is the video of all the three ways you can install WordPress plugins.