Title: adding plug ins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# adding plug ins

 *  [ann1313](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ann1313/)
 * (@ann1313)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plug-ins/)
 * Hi I need someone to help me. I have wordpress automatically installed into my
   website, so I didn’t have to download it or anything. However, I need to add 
   a plug in, and I don’t know how to install files to my webserver, or add folders
   in a wordpress directory, nor do I know if that is what I should be doing. Please
   help!

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 *  [harknell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harknell/)
 * (@harknell)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plug-ins/#post-674122)
 * You will need to either use a FTP program from your computer, or use a web based
   administration page on your server to move files to the following directory: 
   wp-content/plugins/
 * This directory will be off of wherever your WordPress site was installed to on
   your server. What you need to do with the plugin files is move the folder that
   contains the plugin files (make sure that the files are directly in the folder
   and are not in a sub-folder of the folder you are moving to the server) to the
   above listed folder, then go into your WordPress site admin page for plugins 
   and click the activate button listed for that plugin.
 * If you need a basic tutorial on FTP programs check out this one at my site: [http://www.awsom.org/tutorials/3-moving-files-to-your-web-server/](http://www.awsom.org/tutorials/3-moving-files-to-your-web-server/)
   which talks about 2 free ones for Mac and PC.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plug-ins/#post-674122)
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