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NOTE: This plugin requires PHP5

See The Notes in: 'Other Notes' below before installing

1. Point a web browser to WP plugins

2. Search for idna, download and upload to your web host.

3. Copy the whole idna directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WP blog

4. Access the administrative section of your WP blog. (In a typical default installation, WP determines your hostname and sets the WP blog url field to the Punycode verion of your url, so you should be able to access the administrative section of your WP blog using the Punycode version of the IDN) if that is not the case, you will first have to set the blog Url to use the Punycode version of your IDN, so you can access the administrative section to activate the plugin.

5. To get the PUNYCODE version of your IDN, here is an online conversion tool

6. Activate the plugin IDNA through the Plugins menu in WordPress

7. Change your WP Url to now use your IDN

   • Navigate to General Settings menu
   • set the WordPress address (URL) field to your IDN name (*)
   • set the Blog address (URL) field to your IDN name
   • Save Changes

8. If something does go wrong and you get locked out of the admin section, see the notes in 'Other Notes' (Arbitrary section), to regain access.

• Unfortunely, for security reasons, current Firefox versions will display the Punycode version and NOT the IDN. For more details,(and work around) see the 'Other Notes' Link (Arbitrary section - readme.txt).