{"id":419,"date":"2014-09-08T19:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/?p=419"},"modified":"2014-10-01T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:45:17","slug":"how-to-install-new-wordpress-plugins-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/how-to-install-new-wordpress-plugins-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install new WordPress plugins manually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous tutorial we learned how to install a plugin from the WordPress plugins directory. But sometimes it happens that the plugin we need can&#8217;t be found in WordPress plugins directory (this is the case, for example, with paid plugins). What we need to do in that case is to upload our plugin manually.<\/p>\n<p>Again, there are more ways to this. We can upload plugin to our plugins directory via FTP or our host&#8217;s file manager. But what I found for new user to be easiest is to upload plugins with the help of &#8220;<strong>Upload Plugin<\/strong>&#8221; option. So, in this WordPress tutorial I will show you how to use &#8220;<strong>Upload Plugin<\/strong>&#8221; option to easily add new WordPress plugins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Log into WordPress admin area for your website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Navigate to &#8220;<strong>Plugins<\/strong> &#8211;&gt; <strong>Add New<\/strong>&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_16-300x143.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_16-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_16-1024x491.png 1024w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_16.png 1353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Click on &#8220;<strong>Upload Plugin<\/strong>&#8220;, as shown on picture below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_26-300x145.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_26-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_26-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_26.png 1347w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Click on &#8220;<strong>Choose file<\/strong>&#8220;, then browse through your hard drive and find desired plugin. Once you selected desired plugin for this installation you need to click on &#8220;<strong>Install Now<\/strong>&#8221; button. For the sake of this tutorial I downloaded WP Super Cache plugin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Your plugin must be in a <strong>.zip format<\/strong> in order for this to work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-422\" src=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_35-300x137.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_35-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_35-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_35.png 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> Once the installation is completed you will be redirected to &#8220;<strong>Plugin installed successfully.<\/strong>&#8221; page. And now all there is left to do is activating your new plugin. Just click on &#8220;<strong>Activate plugin<\/strong>&#8221; and it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-423\" src=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_43-300x137.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_43-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_43-1024x470.png 1024w, https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot_43.png 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would be all for this tutorial. Now we learned how to install WordPress plugins manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous tutorial we learned how to install a plugin from the WordPress plugins directory. But sometimes it happens that the plugin we need can&#8217;t be found in WordPress plugins directory (this is the case, for example, with paid plugins). What we need to do in that case is to upload our plugin manually&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/how-to-install-new-wordpress-plugins-manually\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servikus.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}