Title: Plugin installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin installation

 *  [taj71](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taj71/)
 * (@taj71)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-4/)
 * How do I “Upload” to wp-content/plugins folder??? I am new to this and I cannot
   figure it out for the life of me. I went through installing plugins but I am 
   not understanding it at all! Where do I find the “WordPress directory online?”
   I am ready to scream. Please tell me I am overlooking something simple. Any help
   in uploading plugins would be great. Please do not send me to the directions 
   on WordPress, I am not feeling the love there.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-4/#post-709689)
 * assuming you are NOT hosted somewhere like wordpress.com, edublogs.com, etc
 * 1. you use an **ftp client** (look at the docs, use google)
 * 2. to connect to your web sites’s **ftp** location (info given to you by your
   host)
 * 3. said info will consist of an **IP** or **hostname**, an ftp username, and 
   a password (talk to your host)
 * 4. Once you connect via **ftp** you can navigate around the various directories—
   and locate your wp-content/plugins directory.
 * 5. **Uploading** and **downloading** is something done with the **ftp client**.
 * Searchable keywords are in bold — this is very basic Internet technology stuff
   and all of this can be learned in greater detail via Google.
 *  [chronicchicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chronicchicks/)
 * (@chronicchicks)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-4/#post-709895)
 * I am laughing! This took my two days just to get me to THIS point! Now I am trying
   to figure out what happens AFTER this!! It sure seems that WordPress would put
   out a one page set of instructions for those of us doing this for this first 
   time that says all of this instead of having so many of us recreate the wheel
   and spend hundreds of hours researching something that seems pretty basic to 
   the rest of you.
 * Having said that. Once you’ve placed the plug-ins into your Plug-In Folder and
   Activated them- uhhhh…exactly how do you USE them?
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-4/#post-709896)
 * Okay it’s a little more than a page but here is the installation doc.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins)
 * You’ll have to refer to the plugins documentation to see how to use them, all
   are different.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-4/#post-709896)
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