Title: How do I “call” a plugin?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# How do I “call” a plugin?

 *  [pauline_k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauline_k/)
 * (@pauline_k)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-call-a-plugin/)
 * Hello,
 * This is a really basic question, but I don’t know php at all. I managed to successfully
   put this delicious plugin
 * [http://linuxbrit.co.uk/blog/2004/10/01/wordpress-delicious-plugin-10/](http://linuxbrit.co.uk/blog/2004/10/01/wordpress-delicious-plugin-10/)
 *  in the correct folder, and activate it using the plugin manager, but I guess
   I have to insert some code into my index template in order to “call” the plugin??
 * Could someone please type out the exact code I have to use?
 * Thanks so much for your help!!!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-call-a-plugin/#post-135085)
 * `<?php delicious_links("my_username", "my_password"); ?>`
    Stick it in menu where
   you want it to be.
 * 🙂
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-call-a-plugin/#post-135088)
 * Pauline,
    Often plugin authors will include a readme.txt file with their plugins,
   or, at minimum, will include instructions inside the actual plugin PHP page itself.
   Also, you can find installation instructions (usually) on the author’s web site.
 * Just trying to give you an idea of the options you have for finding the information
   you may need.
 *  Thread Starter [pauline_k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauline_k/)
 * (@pauline_k)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-call-a-plugin/#post-135149)
 * podz: Thanks!!
 * Nuclear Moose: Those are good suggestions. The guy who wrote the plugin didn’t
   include a readme, and if you look at his blog, he kind of assumes that people
   know php. I didn’t think to look inside the file, though; next time I may try
   that.
 *  [Modifiedcontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modifiedcontent/)
 * (@modifiedcontent)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-call-a-plugin/#post-135864)
 * Nice suggestion NuclearMoose, but most plugin writers and other open source developers
   tend to use short-hand assuming everybody’s a coder. They just write ‘call the
   function’ and we have to figure it out from there and end up after too much wasted
   time at posts like this.

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