Totally lost, please help!! :-/

  • luke12321

    (@luke12321)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    So I have decided to actually do something with this blog I purchased years ago.

    When I purcahsed it off the previous owner, if I remember correctly, he just gave me a a url

    It looks something like this

    http://www.choosecharleston.com/wp-login.php?redirect (ect ect)

    I just login with my user ID and password he created for me and I can login and post.

    I am now wanting to add a plugin and try to do some other stuff with the blog.

    I don’t know if I need to download wordpress on my computer or what? I am REALLY clueless as to I have right now.

    My question is, do I need to download wordpress on my PC or is it okay to keep logging through that URL?

    I want to add a plugin to the site. I am totally in the blue as to what I really need to do to be able to do this.

    Thanks

    Luke

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  • techkat

    (@techkat)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Luke,

    One of the beauties of WordPress is that even when you are hosting it yourself you do not need to have anything on your local computer.

    To install plugins, just look on the left-hand side menus and find ‘Plugins’. Click the header and a menu will drop down where you can choose whether you want to work with your installed plugins, add new plugins, edit existing plugins or …

    If you want to install new plugins, just click on “Add New” and that will take you to a page where you can either upload a plugin (in zip file format) from your hard drive, search for plugins that do what you want done, or browse through the Featured, Newest, Most Popular and Most Recently Updated plugins. You can also choose from the tags at the bottom of that page for a listing of plugins that fit the tag criteria.

    After you’ve chosen the plugin you want, just click on Install. WordPress will do the rest. The next page you’ll see will have the option to Activate your new plugin.

    The newer versions of WordPress have made this a really simple, automated process.

    Good luck.

    Kat

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