uploading plugins

  • mave17

    (@mave17)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I just recently uploaded wordpress to bluehost, and been having trouble uploading plugins. I’ve figured how to install them to my addon domain through the file manager. The only problem is that I have to first creat a new folder in the wp-content folder and then upload every single file individualy. For some plugins this isn’t a problem, but for others it would take quite awhile.
    I was wondering If there is any way to just upload the entier folder into
    wp-content without having to do it one file at a time.

    I was also wondering if it would be possible to keep all the plugins the same for all of my domains without having to go through and install them all separately. Thanks

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Using cPanel makes installing plugins pretty easy as long as the plugin author puts the files in a file inside the zip folder.

    Using this plugin as an example:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contact-form/

    1. Download the plugin zip file to your local machine.
    2. In cPanel File Manager (I like the Legacy File Manager), navigate to your plugin folder. If you have WordPress installed in it’s own folder called wordpress, you would navigate to “public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins” and if WordPress is installed in your web-root folder you would navigate to “public_html/wp-content/plugins”. In your case it probably is something like “public_html/domainfolder/wp-content/plugins” where domainfolder is the folder you’ve designated for your add-on domain.
    3. Once you’ve navigated to the plugins folder in cPanel File Manager, click on Upload file(s) and upload that zip file you saved in Step 1.
    4. Once the zip file is uploaded, click on the zip file name in cPanel, then in the panel to the right, click on Extract File Contents, and that zip file will be uncompressed.
    5. Visit your WordPress admin panel to activate the plugin.

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