Title: Totally lost, please help!! :-/
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Totally lost, please help!! :-/

 *  [luke12321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luke12321/)
 * (@luke12321)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/totally-lost-please-help/)
 * So I have decided to actually do something with [this ](http://choosecharleston.com)
   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](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techkat/)
 * (@techkat)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/totally-lost-please-help/#post-1616748)
 * 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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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/totally-lost-please-help/#post-1616748)
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