The basic WordPress blog installation has a great many features and abilities. However, third parties all around the world are constantly creating Plugins that give us more features and capabilities for our blog.
In this lesson, we learn how to upload some plugins that I think are absolutely necessary to get us off to a good start. We'll be installing others later on an as-needed basis, but these we'll need from the beginning.
- You Need Your Free Wordpress.com Account to Get Your API KeySignup screen for WordPress.com UserName
- We Want to Activate Our Akismet Spam Plugin FirstTwo Plugins currently in our blog.
- Our New Screen is Requiring an API KeyAsking for API Key
- Our API Key is In and Akismet is Now ActivatedAkismet API screen.
- We Need to Create a Folder for PluginsCreating a Folder for Plugins In Our Demotown Folder
- The Add Post Footer PluginAdd Post Footer Plugin Page
- The All In One SEO Pack PluginAll In One SEO Pack page.
- The PhotoDropper Plugin for Easy ImagesPhotoDropper Plugin page.
- The Similar Posts Plugin for Visitor DirectionThe Similar Posts Plugin Page
- Now We Upload Our Plugins with the FTP UtilityUploading Our Plugins with FTP
- Here's What the Plugins Folder on the Site Looks Like NowFTP screen with uploaded plugins.
- Our Plugins are Up and On the Dashboard, But InactiveThe plugins page from the Dashboard
- Graphic Index
- Text Index
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