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WordPress Top Plugins

You're reading from   WordPress Top Plugins Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and generating revenue

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511407
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brandon Corbin Brandon Corbin
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

WordPress Top Plugins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Plugin Basics 2. Generating Content FREE CHAPTER 3. Sharing Content 4. Style and Function 5. Building a Community with BuddyPress 6. Generating Revenue 7. Working with Multiple Authors 8. Security and Maintenance 9. Power Admin 10. Time for Action

Automatic install versus manual install


WordPress offers two main methods to install a plugin. One is WordPress' own baked-in Plugin Installer (results may vary) and the other is the manual method using SFTP or FTP. WordPress's automatic install makes life significantly easier, depending on your webhosting provider, however it might not be available for your hosting package. If this is the case, and your site doesn't support automatic install, you can still manually install plugins using FTP.

Honestly, if your host doesn't support automatic installation, you should seriously consider changing web hosts. The ability to automatically install WordPress updates, plugin updates, and new plugins is one of the reasons WordPress is great; the process is hard enough without letting things become outdated.

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