How To manually Install and update WordPress Plugin

Staying updated is crucial to obtain good results.

If you own a WordPress website, it is important to keep it updated. May it be themes, plugins or WordPress itself.

In this article, we’ll show you how to manually install and update WordPress plugin.

How to install WordPress plugin manually?

Go to Plugins>Add new

Now, you have two options. You can either upload a plugin zip file, click on upload plugin.

Or, you can search plugins and then choose whichever you want and install it by clicking ‘Install Now’.

After you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll have to activate it.

Go to Plugins>Installed Plugins and click on activate link of whichever plugin you want to activate.

That’s it, you’ve successfully installed and activated a WordPress Plugin.

How to update a WordPress Plugin manually?

To update WordPress plugin manually, go to Plugins>Installed Plugins. Here you can see an update message below the plugin which you wish to update.

Click on ‘update now’ to update the plugin.

Now you know how to Install and update WordPress Plugin. We hope that this article has helped you. Share your thoughts with us in the comment section.