Title: Installing plugins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installing plugins

 *  [leroyleroux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leroyleroux/)
 * (@leroyleroux)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins/)
 * I have downloaded a couple of plugins I want to use. One of them says to paste
   to the ‘lugins directory…when I click on this, I can’t paste. Am I supposed to
   download right to the directory, or what am I doing wrong?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins/#post-355905)
 * when you say “paste” are they giving you a .txt file, and requiring you to use
   a text editor to copy and save the file as a .php one? If so, be sure to not 
   have any trailing spaces after the last ?>
 * Then upload the file to your plugins directory and activate.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins/#post-355905)
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