Title: Adding Plugins Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Adding Plugins * Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/) * I’m having trouble adding plugins. I follow the directions to the “T” however I’ve run into some problems. What is happening is that I upload the plugin, delete any white space after the last command and activate it. After activation, the actual script language shows up on my home page. What am I doing wrong? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84015) * I’m confused …… when you upload a plugin, there is generally no need to edit it, or if there is, this will be clearly defined in an accompanying readme. Is this any plugin at all ? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84016) * It’s not every plugin, but about 80% of them. The “editing” I am doing is clearing out the spaces after the ?> as I have been told to do so before. When I haven’t done this, the plugins page alone shows the entire code. One of the ones that does this for my is getContentforShowHide by Scripty Goddess. There are others that I have run accross, however this is the latest one that I am trying to implement. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84033) * Those ‘highlight the text’ phps files are the worst. First thing, use a decent text editor. Never ever use Word. Notepad / Wordpad / BBEdit are okay. Paste the text in, then make sure that the very first thing is Place the cursor between the ? and the > and hold down the DELETE key for several seconds. Then type the > and then ‘Save As’ whatever .php file it is. After the >, don’t press any other key at all, Absolutely nothing. This help ? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84047) * Nope. It is still displaying the code at the top of my page. You do make a great point about editing programs though. Hopefully others take heed of your advice. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84051) * Link please ? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84052) * [http://www.inthebullpen.com/](http://www.inthebullpen.com/) I have activated the script so you can see the coding. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84054) * Ah! That’s a .phps file. The ‘s’ on the end is so you can see it – normally php is insible (so to speak) From cut that out and save it as a . php file, then do whatever SG says is the thing to do. It should work then ? * [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/) * (@southerngal) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84055) * Hey now, what are you using?? I just see a normal blog page. 😉 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84056) * If it were only something as easy as that. It is rightly classified as a .php file. I’m not sure what you mean by cutting out everything from . Wouldn’t that delete the entire code? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84057) * Southerngal, I’m activating the plugin and deactivating the plugin to test it out. I use Firefox, however I’ve tried it with IE as well and the same problem persists. I left the plugin activated for Podz to check it out however have since deactivated it. * [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/) * (@southerngal) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84058) * What plug-in is it? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84059) * This is very strange…apologies for this, but have I got this right ? – you save the file with a .php extention (such as ‘showhide.php’) – you upload it to /wp- content/plugins – you activate it – and you see code all over the place ? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84061) * [http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/05/20/show-hide-more-with-wordpress/](http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/05/20/show-hide-more-with-wordpress/) * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84062) * Heh, yep Podz. That why it’s confusing the heck out of me. Not only did I save it as a .php file, I also renamed it to make sure it was a .php file in my FTP program. I am certain of one thing, it is a .php file. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/#post-84065) * Are there any “noob” methods to adding plugins that I may be missing? Is there some sort of modification I should make to my index.php file or another file? It is my understanding that even if you haven’t installed it correctly via adding whatever might be needed in your index.php file it still wouldn’t place the entire code on the page. Note: There are no additions to add to index.php in the instructions. This was just an example. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Adding Plugins’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 24 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-plugins/page/2/#post-84100) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics