WordPress Basics
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Accessing your WordPress site
    • Accessing Your Site
    • Logging Into Your Site
    • Resetting Your Password
    • Switching From Dashboard to Live Site
  • Adding content to your site
    • Creating a Post
    • Creating a Page
    • Working with content in the Visual editor
    • Working with code in the Text editor
    • Creating a Link
    • Editing a Link
    • Adding an Image to a Page or Post
    • Wrapping Text Around an Image
    • Editing Image Details
    • Removing an Image From a Page or Post
    • Adding a Featured Image to a Post
    • Deleting a Post
    • Deleting a Page
  • Working with Menus
    • Creating a Menu
    • Adding Pages to a Menu
    • Removing Pages From a Menu
    • Creating a Custom Link Menu item
    • Changing a button label
    • Changing the order of Menu items
    • Creating a fly-out Menu
    • Managing the Menu location
  • Working with Plugins
    • Adding a Plugin to your site
    • Finding plugin instructions
    • Updating your Plugins
    • Deactivating a Plugin
    • Deleting a Plugin
  • Changing the look of your site
    • Adding a theme to your site
    • Changing themes
    • Managing the Menu after switching themes
    • Using the Customizer
    • Working with Widgets
    • Updating your themes
  • Site settings and administration
    • Creating a static front page
    • Creating a page for posts
    • Changing the format of permalinks
    • Changing your password
    • Changing your email address
    • Managing spam comments
    • Updating your WordPress installation
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  1. Working with Plugins

Adding a Plugin to your site

Plugins let you customize the functionality of your site. You can use plugins to:

  • Create a portfolio-style grid

  • Add a social media icon menu

  • Set up a contact form

  • Embed PDF documents

  • Maintain site security

  • And (much much) more

If there's something you'd like your site to do, there's a good chance someone developed a plugin to do it. Just Google whatever it is you’d like to do along with the words “WordPress” and “Plugin.”

To be safe, always install plugins from the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can search for plugins by name and install them directly to your site.

  1. From the Dashboard, click Plugins and choose Add New.

  2. In the Install Plugins page, enter keyword terms for the type of plugin you would like to install (examples: “Contact form” or “social media”) and click Search Plugins.

  3. Scroll through the list of plugins that appears. Click Details to get more information about a plugin.

  4. If you find a plugin you’d like to add to your site, click Install Now.

  5. When asked, “Are you sure you want to install this plugin?” click OK.

  6. The plugin will download to your site and server space, but you will need to activate it before you can use it. Click Activate Plugin.

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