Title: Getting plugins to work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Getting plugins to work

 *  [propz1138](https://wordpress.org/support/users/propz1138/)
 * (@propz1138)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/)
 * I uploaded a new sub-page to a page I created but it doesn’t show up anywhere
   on my blog. Any attempts to try to get a sub-page plug in are foiled by my utter
   incompetence in computer terminology. Would someone please describe IN DETAIL
   how to load and active a plug-in so I can get this to work? Leave no little bit
   of information out (including complete URL names)as like I mentioned earlier,
   I’m a n00b. I appreciate all your help.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005858)
 * [Managing Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins) has a section
   on installing a Plugin.
 * I like to download the plugin zip to my local machine then in Plugins->Add new
   use the ‘Install plugin from zip’ feature, which simply involves browsing for
   the zip and installing. See [Administration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels)
   > [Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Install_Plugins)
   > [Add New](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins_Add_New_SubPanel)
 *  [mikey1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikey1/)
 * (@mikey1)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005867)
 * Hi there, you could take a look at this great tutorial by figaro, it will help
   with the upload of plugins and themes.
    [http://educhalk.org/blog/?tag=plugins](http://educhalk.org/blog/?tag=plugins)
 * good luck.
    mike.
 *  Thread Starter [propz1138](https://wordpress.org/support/users/propz1138/)
 * (@propz1138)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005868)
 * Where do I find that option? Is it on wordpress.org or wordpress.com. The blog
   is something that I activated through my host site and I don’t know if certain
   functions are available to me.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005876)
 * > I activated through my host site and I don’t know if certain functions are 
   > available to me.
 * What version of WordPress are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [propz1138](https://wordpress.org/support/users/propz1138/)
 * (@propz1138)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005887)
 * I can’t find the version but I just loaded it between December and Jaunary; I
   do know that it’s not ver. 2.7.1
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005890)
 * Then if it is lower than 2.7, following [Upgrading WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress)
   to get to the current version so you can use a more automatic approach to installing
   plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [propz1138](https://wordpress.org/support/users/propz1138/)
 * (@propz1138)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005910)
 * Again, lots of stuff on how to install that I don’t understand. I’ll try contacting
   my host to see if they can help me upgrade.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-plugins-to-work/#post-1005910)
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