{"id":1009,"date":"2018-01-07T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:14:51","slug":"how-to-manually-install-a-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-manually-install-a-wordpress-plugin","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Install a WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The automatic installation of a plugin is easy and straightforward. However, you can also install it manually. It will involve manually downloading a plugin, uploading, and activating it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you have already downloaded a zip file of the plugin to your desktop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to the WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> From the Dashboard menu, go to <strong>Plugins<\/strong> and click on <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/uix-plugin-add-new-menu.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Click on <strong>Upload Plugin<\/strong> and then on <strong>Browse<\/strong>. Choose your plugin&#8217;s zip file and click <strong>Install Now<\/strong>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/uix-plugin-manual-browse-install.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Click on <strong>Activate Plugin<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/uix-activate-manual-plugin.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> After activating a plugin, a new menu of that plugin is added to the Dashboard menu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The automatic installation of a plugin is easy and straightforward. However, you can also install it manually. It will involve manually downloading a plugin, uploading, and activating it. &nbsp; Make sure you have already downloaded a zip file of the plugin to your desktop. 1. Log in to the WordPress dashboard. 2. From the Dashboard &#8230; <a title=\"How to Manually Install a WordPress Plugin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-manually-install-a-wordpress-plugin\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Manually Install a WordPress Plugin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[75],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1009","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_category?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_tag?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}