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WordPressPlugin Safety
Search, Install, Troubleshoot
 
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Contents
Search...................................................................................................................................................... 3Searching on WordPress.org ............................................................................................................... 3Searching from your Admin Dashboard.............................................................................................. 6Install ....................................................................................................................................................... 8Auto-installing ..................................................................................................................................... 8Manually installing ............................................................................................................................ 10Troubleshoot ......................................................................................................................................... 13Deactivating Your Plugin via FTP ....................................................................................................... 13Posting a support request ................................................................................................................. 14Telling the community .......................................................................................................................... 15WordPress has more than 15,000 plugins in its repository and as WordPress users you have access to
every one of them. With so much code at your fingertips it’s easy to become dazzled. This guide
willhelp you to navigate the WordPress Plugin Repository, install plugins and initiate thetroubleshooting process should you need to.
 
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Search
Searching on WordPress.org
The place to start your search for plugins should always behttp://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins 
This is the home of WordPress plugins and you’ll be able to find many tools to extend and enhance
your site. Visit the site and type your search term into the search bar:This will deliver the search results page. You can scroll down and use the information provided to
decide which plugin you’d like to learn more about.
There is all sorts of initial information on the search results page:
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