Activating WordPress Plugins
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available. WordPress has numerous features that will help you to communicate with your readers can handle the traffic is generated by your audience. In addition to this, WordPress has numerous bits of code that are called plugins. These will help your WordPress blog provide even more functions.
There are many plug-ins available for WordPress. You have the option of using both paid and free plug-ins. These blogging tools are the main reason why most people choose WordPress to begin with.
In order to look at the default plug-ins that come with your WordPress installation, you can click on the plug-ins link in the navigation bar that is located on your WordPress administration interface. When you do this, WordPress will open the plug-in management panel. This will display all of the plug-ins that are currently installed. An installed plug-in is a plug-in that has been uploaded and also saying in your WordPress installation folder.
There are two plug-ins that will be installed in your WordPress blog by default (Askimet and Hello, Dolly). Having them installed, however, is not enough. In order to use a plug-in, you must activate it.
To activate a plugin, you need to click on the checkbox of the plugin that you would like to activate. If you want to activate multiple ones at the same time, then you simply need to check all the boxes that you wish to activate. After you do this, then you simply click the activate button at the top of the Inactive Plugins screen
The Askimet plug-in is an essential plug-in that you will need to use with your WordPress blog. This will check all of your comments and see if they look like spam comments are not. You will be able to review any of the spam it catches and see if you would like to allow the comment or not.
The second plug-in (Hello, Dolly) does not have any useful function, but it is used as a symbol of hope and enthusiasm. If you activate this plug-in, you will randomly see one lyric from hello Dolly in the upper right corner of your admin screen.
WordPress will also notify you when there is an update available for your plug-ins. It will have a small bubble in the right order of the plug-in management panel and this will indicate how many plugins have available updates. If you click this number, you will see the information about the updates. You will then have the choice to click the download version and also to click the upgrade automatically link. If you choose to upgrade automatically, the download will occur and the old plug-in will be removed.
Using plug-ins for your WordPress blog is an essential part of making your blog unique and functional. To find additional plug-ins, you can visit the WordPress plug-in directory at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins. In time, you will be able to create your own plug-ins and share them with other WordPress users.
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