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How to Activate a WordPress Plugin

March 12, 2019 By Matthew Burleigh

How to Activate a WordPress Plugin

While a standard WordPress website provides you with the ability to display information on your domain, you may eventually decide that you want additional feature or functionality that you can’t get with the default options.

Many of the more exciting and useful things that you can do on your site are accomplished with the help of plugins. These can be downloaded from the WordPress repository and installed on your site, directly from the Plugins tab in your admin section. But after you have installed a plugin, you will need to activate that plugin to be able to use it.

Activating a WordPress Plugin

The steps in this guide were performed in WordPress 5.1, but are very similar in most earlier versions of the application as well. Note that some Web hosting companies might block certain plugins, which may make it impossible for you to activate them. If you encounter a situation like this you will need to contact your hosting company foe further information.

Step 1: Sign into the admin section of your site at yourdomain.com/wp-admin.

Step 2: Hover over the Plugins option at the left side of the window, then choose the Installed Plugins option.

open the installed plugin menu in wordpress

Step 3: Click the Activate link under the plugin that you wish to activate.

how to activate a wordpress plugin

If you discover after activating a plugin that you no longer wish to use it, then you will need to deactivate that plugin. The process is very similar to how we activated that plugin in the steps above.

Matthew Burleigh
Matthew Burleigh

Matt has been working with WordPress and creating content using this powerful content management system for years. While he has written about many other tech topics, WordPress is one of his favorites.

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