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Welcome to this new section of the WordPress cause, we're going to step back from the building and
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the designing of our actual website and move on to plug ins, plug ins are really, really, really
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important for being able to customize your own website and to create a website that has all kinds of
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features, such as security, backing up email options, you name it.
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There's a plug in for it on WordPress.
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So in this lesson, I just want to verify that you know how to install a new plug in.
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So if you've already learned how to install a new plug in from the previous lessons where we did it
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really quickly with some of the design features, you don't have to watch this lesson.
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You can skip to the next one, and each lesson in this section will be covering a specific WordPress
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plug in and how to use it and why we use it.
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So first, let's learn how to install a new plug in from WordPress.
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You can go to plug ins, add new.
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This will take you to a search page where you can find new plug ins.
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Now there are all kinds of premium plug ins that you could find on different websites from developers
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who create custom plugins.
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These are great for certain kinds of jobs, but I personally like using the free option.
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So in this course, I'm going to recommend some of the premium options if you want to actually purchase
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a plug in.
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But I'll also be showing you the free version if you want to bootstrap your website and start it basically
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for no cost.
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So here we're on the odd plug ins page, and if you haven't been on here before, you can see the featured
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plugins.
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These are very popular plug ins that WordPress recommends for all kinds of things, and we'll be looking
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at some of these.
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We've already looked at Jetpack right now, which was pre-installed when I installed WordPress on my
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Bluehost website.
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You might not have installed it yet.
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If you're not using Blue Bluehost to search for a plug in.
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You can search in the search box.
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Now you can search for anything.
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Say we want to add a gallery to our website.
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We can search for gallery and find all kinds of plug ins for creating different galleries.
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I will admit that the plug in search is not the best.
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It's difficult to understand how some of these search results appear.
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You have a mixture of some that are highly rated ones that have been around for a long time and have
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lots of installs and some that have been recently updated versus some that haven't.
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And these are the key things to look at when installing a plug in.
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You don't want to install plug in that hasn't been updated.
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Probably you don't want to install a plug in that is not compatible with this version or your version
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of WordPress.
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There are some plug ins that just haven't been updated yet, but they have a great reputation and they
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will be updating for your current version of WordPress.
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So that's one thing that you want to look at.
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The next is last updated.
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So if it hasn't been updated in the past year, then I would say skip it.
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You don't want to use a plug in that's old outdated.
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This is a formula for disaster in which hackers can figure out how to hack into your website via an
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old plug in.
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You also want to look at the ratings.
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Typically, you want to make sure that it's over four stars.
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Of course, this is just like anything else.
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You want to make sure that it has good ratings and then active installs.
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Yes, there might be some great new plug ins out there that don't have many installs, but I typically
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use the ones that have the most installs, or at least a lot of installs, which proves that there are
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a lot of people using it and a lot of people liking it.
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So to find out more about any of these plug ins, we can click on it right here.
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Click on the title.
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It pops up a new window with a description instructions for installing screenshots of the plug in,
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which might not matter for some different plug ins, but for example, for a gallery plug in, we'd
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want to look at what it looks like.
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There's other frequently asked questions we can see the reviews.
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These are all good things to look at.
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If we're happy with it, we can click Install now from here.
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Once it's installed, we can activate it from this menu right here because we have it installed doesn't
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mean we can use it yet, but I'm not going to activate it yet.
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I'm going to go to our installed plug ins page right here.
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Here you can see all of the plug ins that we have installed.
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The ones that are highlighted in blue are active.
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The ones that aren't highlighted in blue aren't active.
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So to activate this photo gallery, we can click Activate from here.
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Sometimes when you install a new plug in, a window will pop up or a new banner will pop up at the top
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of your screen that will kind of guide you through using that plug in.
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So we could just click Start here to view this photo gallery plug in.
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You can see that added to menu items, the photo gallery and the photo gallery add ons.
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Now, I personally have never even used this gallery plug in before, so I would have to walk myself
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through this to learn.
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But that's what I'm going to do with the rest of the plug ins.
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I'll know how to use them, and I'll walk you through them in a little bit more depth.
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But in this lesson, I just wanted to show you how to install.
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All.
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So let's go back to our installed plug ins page and learn how to delete a plug in, sometimes after
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you've installed a plug in to this window keeps popping up.
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So until you click the Dismiss button, it's just going to keep popping up.
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There's hello, Dolly.
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Plug in is automatically installed and this is one that I want to delete because it really serves no
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purpose.
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You can read what it means right here, so I'm going to deactivate it because right now I can't delete
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it.
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I have to deactivate it first, so I click Deactivate.
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Once it's deactivated from my website, I can now delete it by clicking the delete button and confirming
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that I want to delete.
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The other thing I want to mention is updating.
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There are different ways to update your plugins, but one is by going to this installed plugins page.
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And here we can see that the Mojo Marketplace plug in, which was installed when I installed WordPress
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with Bluehost, needs an update.
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It has this little banner right here.
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I can click Update now here, or I can go to Dashboard Update, and we saw this earlier in the course
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where this is sort of your home page for updates.
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It will include updates for WordPress itself, for plugins or themes.
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It's interesting right now.
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It doesn't show that that Mojo Marketplace needs an update, so it's important to check both places.
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So back on the installed plugins page, I'm just going to click Update now.
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Now, for best practices, it's important to check if the update is good to go for your website, search
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on their website, go to this plug ins website and see what the details are with the new plugin.
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Sometimes I've updated a plug in and there was some sort of glitch with it, and it either messed up
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my website or it messed up that plug in.
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So you want to make sure that everyone's happy with the update.
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At the same time, you need to balance out with making sure you update frequently because if you leave
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a plug in not updated, there might be a glitch with that plug in.
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Perhaps there was a vulnerability that could lead to hacking, so you want to make sure that you do
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update your plugins because usually it means that the creator of that plug in is fixing a problem or
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making it even better.
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So that's how you find, install and activate any new plug in.
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Also, how you delete plug ins in the follow up lessons.
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I'm going to be going over specific tasks that I encourage you to do for your website before you launch
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it to the world.
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