How To Install WordPress Plugin Step by Step Guide for Beginner's

Install WordPress Plugin

Install WordPress plugin with easy and short way with step by step guide. To build your own website you must know about how to Install plugin in WordPress.

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What Does Plugin mean in WordPress?

A Plugin is a piece of software component having group of functions that’s can be add to WordPress Website and with the help of plugin you can achieved more customize benefits without coding.

Plugins are build with PHP programming language and combine with WordPress without knowing PHP coding language. There are thousands of WordPress plugin that are listed on WordPress.org

As a beginner’s lot of free plugins available and you can use to enhanced WordPress website functionality. You can use all of them without purchasing.

But free plugins are limited features for beginner’s any plugin is sufficient features and you can test and learn.

There are two ways to Install Plugin in WordPress.

Manual Install
Direct Install

1. Manual Install

As it’s name shows that this method manual installation. Visit WordPress.org/Plugins/ and search your required plugin in search area. I search WP Performance Score Booster.

Click on the plugin and download the plugin by clicking Download Button

After Download the plugin you will get a zip file in your download folder now go to your WordPress Dashboard go to Plugins>Ad New you will see the Upload Plugin Button on top left hand side click on the Upload Plugin button.

Choose zip file of plugin and click on Install Now

When installation complete Activate Plugin Button will appear simply activate the plugin and you have successfully installed.

2. Direct Install

This is a simple and easy way to install plugin and with the help of this you can install any of the plugin with just a few steps and start your journey in WordPress website development field.

Go to WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins > Ad New

Now search your required plugin name in search bar if does’t know the exact name of the plugin just search with first name here i’m searching WP Performance Score Boaster