Title: Installing Plugins
Last modified: October 22, 2018

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# Installing Plugins

 *  Resolved [ezingers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ezingers/)
 * (@ezingers)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-9/)
 * I’ve been looking for a good CMS program for a while now to create a extensive
   recipe website. I’ve tried subrion and typo3 both are good, but very limited 
   with plugins and typo3 requires a lot of code knowledge. My coding is good, but
   not that good. WordPress seems to have what I need including some good templates
   like [Food Recipe](https://themeforest.net/item/food-recipes-wordpress-theme/1923882)
   and [WP Ultimate Recipe](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-recipe/advanced/).
   The good thing is, I don’t have to deal with .htaccess files or configure my 
   server to read them. With all the other cms’s I tried I need that, but they were
   easy to download and install there plugins. I’ve been having trouble with that
   in wordpress. I tried to install a multi video up loader in extension list because
   I didn’t know if any of the two templates had video capabilities or if the did
   if they needed a video plugin to work. When I went to install it, it wanted my
   web page address which I can’t do because it’s on localhost and I don’t want 
   to set up an ssh sever right now for remote access, or a fttp address, which 
   would probable need that type of access, and I don’t need anyone to have access
   to my laptop. Then I tried to install it from file and it said something about
   it couldn’t install and didn’t have permission or access, so I could load it 
   that way ether. Just to let you know just because I know it will come up, my 
   localhost is on Debian 9 with apache2, mysql and php 7.0. Another thing I know
   someone is going to ask me is why I have it on localhost. I don’t want to pay
   for a hosting site while I have a lot to do to get it ready. Localhost to me 
   is my designing platform. When I’m done, I will perches a hosting site to run
   the website.
    Thank You!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Finstalling-plugins-9%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-9/#post-10804741)
 * >  I tried to install a multi video up loader in extension list
 * I don’t understand what this is. If you are having issues with a plugin, you 
   need to ask the plugin author on the plugin support forum. If it is not on the
   WP repository, be more careful. The plugin should not need special access to 
   install or to upload videos.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-9/#post-10805027)
 * I never run WordPress on a local server… too much noise for so little a benefit.
 * I could understand the money issue except the price comes out to about 10 cents
   a day for a shared host. 10 cents is well worth it when I can have my site up
   and running in 20 minutes.
 * Yeah, I get it that the domain is $10.00 but that’s for a whole year and a day
   extra of that is…
 * I sometimes think half the problems people have is caused by trying to save a
   few dollars or using some kind of local server instead of a regular hosting server
   somewhere.
 * If your thinking of using a home server on your broadband-connected laptop you
   can but you need to remember that connection is backwards from a normal web server’s
   connection and the whole thing shuts off when you close the lid.
 * Also, you mentioned the plugin you were having trouble installing. Be careful
   with plugins and themes. If you have trouble installing or they are asking for
   something like credentials or whatever you might be installing something bogus.
   Contact the author or go a different direction.
 * A simple recipe site isn’t all the difficult.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-9/#post-10805027)
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