How to Install WordPress Blog Plugins

There are many plugins available for WordPress blogging software. A wp plugin is basically a small peice of software that runs with the wp blog software used to help automate a certain task for you. These tasks can be used to parse your comments for you for spam comments and automatically delete them, create your sitemap and submit it to the major search engines for you, or even to place Google AdSense ads on your blog for you. The wordpress plugins are usually coded or scripted in php scripting language, I have also seen a few wordpress plugins coded in JavaScript scripting language. Below are some of the WordPress plugins that you will probably want to download and install on your WordPress blog. Below that are the instructions on how to install a wordpress plugin. First let me tell you about some of the most important wordpress plugins you will want to install on your blog.

• Akismet WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin - Checks your wp comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your wordpress blog's "Comments" admin screen.
• All in One SEO WordPress Plugin - Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) by setting some of your titles, descriptions, and keywords.
• SEO Friendly Images Plugin - This handles the "tags" for images using the title="" and alt="" tags on the image's code to make it SEO friendly as well. Search robots can not "see" what an image is of, it uses the title="" and alt="" tags to describe with this image is of.
• HeadSpace2 SEO WordPress Plugin - An all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. With HeadSpace2 you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking.
• Google XML Sitemaps Generator WordPress Plugin - Creates a Google sitemap compliant with XML-Sitemap for your WordPress blog. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo!, are notified about the update.
• WordPress.com Stats Plugin - Statistic counter, there are many stat plugins you can use on wordpress blogging software, this stats plugin has the "most important" stats a blogger wants.
• Ultimate Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress - Uses Google Analytics JavaScript program to keep track of your stats of your WordPress blog.
• WP Opt-in Plugin - This plugin can be used to send e-mail to users wanting specific information. By entering an e-mail address into the field and pressing submit, an e-mail is sent automatically to the specified address and the e-mail address is also automatically stored on a database for you to use for newsletters.
• Amazon Reloaded for WordPress - WP-Amazon plugin seems like it is no longer being developed, I hacked it up as much as I could to make it compatible with new versions of wordpress, I can't keep up with hacking up someone else's plugin, so I found this one.
• ShareThis WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugin - Provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more. Let your viewers spread the word.
• Google AdSense Manager Plugin for WP - for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets. Supports many other ad networks as well.
• All in One AdSense and YPN Plugin - automatically inserts Google AdSense ads or Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) ads in to your blog posts and blog pages on the fly.

Now here are the steps for installing a wordpress blog plugin. Installing a wordpress plugin is not hard to do at all, but can sometimes be tricky if you have never used an FTP client before. But if you pay attention to details, read each step on how to install a wordpress plugin, you shouldn't have any problems. These steps are exactly what you need to do to install a wordpress plugin. If you have any problems installing a wp plugin please ask for help on my business help forum.

1. First you will need to find and download the WordPress blog plugin you want install.
2. Search google.com for a certain wp blog plugin or you can browse for WordPress blog plugins on wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
3. After you have the wp plugin downloaded onto your computer you will need to extract the WordPress plugin out of the *.zip file like we did with the WordPress blog theme using 7-Zip.
4. Now that we have the wp plugin extracted and have an actual folder we need to upload the WordPress plugin folder like we did with the WordPress blog theme as well using FileZilla FTP Client.
5. Open FileZilla and connect to your webhost, entering your domain name, webhost username, and webhost password.
6. Navigate the left side to the folder that you extracted from the *.zip file
7. Navigate the right side to /public_html/wp-content/plugins/ of your webserver
8. On the left side, right click on the wp plugin folder and go to upload
9. After transfer is completed you can disconnect and close FileZilla
10. Now open your favorite web browser (Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari)
11. In the address bar type in http://domain.com/wp-admin/ replacing domain.com with your domain name
12. Type in your WordPress username and WP password and click login
13. After you are logged in click on the button called plugins
14. This will have every wordpress plugin listed that you have currently installed on your WordPress blog
15. Go to the wordpress plugin you want and click activate
16. After the plugin for wordpress is active, most plugins for wordpress have options to edit, which most are usually found under settings or manage.
17. Click on Settings, you should see your wp plugin listed here, if not look around and see where it is maybe under Manage
18. Edit your settings for the plugin installed and click Save, Save Options, Update, whichever that wp plugin calls it
19. Done!

Now your wordpress plugin should be installed and active. I hope this guide to installing a wordpress plugin has helped you! There are many more wordpress guides on my website so if you need any other wordpress help or business help, take a look around, I'm sure you will find tons of internet business infomation.

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