Plugin Management

Plugins are files you usually download separately from WordPress that add functionality. To install a plugin you generally just need to put the plugin file into your wp-content/plugins directory. Once a plugin is installed, you may activate it or deactivate it here. If something goes wrong with a plugin and you can’t use WordPress, delete that plugin from the wp-content/plugins directory and it will be automatically deactivated.

Plugin Version Author Description Action
Hello Dolly 1.0 Matt Mullenweg This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong. Hello, Dolly. This is, by the way, the world’s first official WordPress plugin. When enabled you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. Activate
Markdown 1.0.1 Michel Fortin Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Based on the original Perl version by John Gruber. More… Activate
Textile 1 1.0 Dean Allen This is a simple wrapper for Dean Allen’s Humane Web Text Generator, also known as Textile. If you use this plugin you should disable Textile 2 and Markdown, as they don’t play well together. Activate