WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:05.970 Welcome to this new section of the word press corps we're going to step back from the building and the 00:05.970 --> 00:13.440 designing of our actual Web site and move on to plug ins plug ins are really really really important 00:13.500 --> 00:20.400 for being able to customize your own web site and to create a web site that has all kinds of features 00:20.400 --> 00:24.950 such as security backing up e-mail opt ins you name it. 00:24.970 --> 00:28.150 There's a plug in for it on wordpress. 00:28.170 --> 00:34.320 So in this lesson I just want to verify that you know how to install a new plug in. 00:34.320 --> 00:40.110 So if you've already learn how to install a new plug in from the previous lessons where we did it really 00:40.110 --> 00:44.880 quickly with some of the design features we don't have to watch this less and you can skip to the next 00:44.880 --> 00:50.880 one and each lesson in this section we'll be covering a specific WordPress plug in and how to use it 00:50.880 --> 00:52.140 and why we use it. 00:52.140 --> 00:57.160 So first let's learn how to install a new plug in from WordPress. 00:57.270 --> 01:01.110 You can go to plug ins add new. 01:01.140 --> 01:05.520 This will take you to a search page where you can find new plug ins. 01:05.520 --> 01:11.610 Now there are all kinds of premium plug ins that you could find on different Web sites from developers 01:11.610 --> 01:13.490 who create custom plugins. 01:13.500 --> 01:18.970 These are great for certain kinds of jobs but I personally like using the free option. 01:19.020 --> 01:24.750 So in this course I'm going to recommend some of the premium options if you want to actually purchase 01:24.750 --> 01:30.430 a plug in but I'll also be showing you the free version if you want to bootstrap your web site and start 01:30.430 --> 01:32.280 it basically for no cost. 01:32.280 --> 01:37.860 So here we're on the ad plug ins page and if you haven't been on here before you can see the featured 01:37.860 --> 01:38.550 plug ins. 01:38.550 --> 01:44.100 These are very popular plug ins that WordPress recommends for all kinds of things and we'll be looking 01:44.100 --> 01:44.910 at some of these. 01:44.910 --> 01:50.160 We've already looked at jet pack right now which was pre-installed when I installed where it pressed 01:50.190 --> 01:51.830 on my blue host web website. 01:51.840 --> 01:56.460 You might not have installed it yet if you're not using Baloo has to search for a plug in you can search 01:56.460 --> 01:58.050 in the search box. 01:58.050 --> 02:05.580 Now we can search for any thing say we want to add a gallery to our Web site we can search for gallery 02:05.610 --> 02:09.810 and find all kinds of plug ins for creating different galleries. 02:09.810 --> 02:13.590 I will admit that the plug in surge is not the best. 02:13.590 --> 02:17.250 It's difficult to understand how some of these search results appear. 02:17.280 --> 02:22.710 You have a mixture of some that are highly rated ones that have been around for a long time and have 02:22.710 --> 02:28.310 lots of installs and some that have been recently updated versus some that haven't. 02:28.350 --> 02:31.380 And these are the key things to look at when installing a plug in. 02:31.380 --> 02:34.820 You don't want to install a plug in that hasn't been updated. 02:34.830 --> 02:40.890 Probably you don't want to install a plug in that is not compatible with this version or your version 02:40.890 --> 02:41.880 of wordpress. 02:41.880 --> 02:47.820 There are some plug ins that just haven't been updated yet but they have a great reputation and they 02:47.820 --> 02:51.220 will be updating for your current version of wordpress. 02:51.240 --> 02:53.350 So that's one thing that you want to look at. 02:53.520 --> 02:55.800 The next is Last Updated. 02:55.800 --> 03:00.000 So if it hasn't been updated in the past year then I would say skip it. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.240 You don't want to use a plug in that's old outdated. 03:03.240 --> 03:09.870 This is a formula for disaster in which hackers can figure out how to hack into your web site via an 03:09.930 --> 03:10.810 old plugin. 03:10.830 --> 03:12.320 You also want to look at the ratings. 03:12.330 --> 03:15.180 Typically you want to make sure that it's over four stars. 03:15.180 --> 03:19.980 Of course this is just like anything else you want to make sure that it has good ratings and then active 03:19.980 --> 03:20.620 installs. 03:20.670 --> 03:25.830 Yes there might be some great new plug ins out there that don't have many installs but I typically use 03:25.830 --> 03:31.320 the ones that have the most installs or at least a lot of installs which proves that there are a lot 03:31.320 --> 03:33.380 of people using it and a lot of people like that. 03:33.390 --> 03:37.580 So to find out more about any of these plug ins we can click on it right here. 03:37.590 --> 03:43.980 Click on the title it pops up a new window with a description instructions for installing screenshots 03:44.070 --> 03:47.390 of the plug in which might not matter for some different plug ins. 03:47.400 --> 03:52.030 But for example for a gallery plug in we'd want to look at what it looks like. 03:52.060 --> 03:55.900 There's other frequently asked questions we can see the reviews. 03:55.920 --> 03:57.780 These are all good things to look at. 03:57.780 --> 04:00.630 If we're happy with it we can click Install now from here. 04:00.840 --> 04:06.600 Once it's installed we can activate it from this menu right here because we have it installed doesn't 04:06.600 --> 04:07.680 mean we can use it yet. 04:07.710 --> 04:09.060 But I'm not going to activate it yet. 04:09.060 --> 04:12.590 I'm going to go to our installed plugins page right here. 04:12.600 --> 04:17.490 Here you can see all of the plug ins that we have installed the ones that are highlighted in blue are 04:17.610 --> 04:18.420 active. 04:18.600 --> 04:25.020 The ones that are highlighted in blue aren't active so to activate this photo gallery we can click activate 04:25.020 --> 04:25.700 from here. 04:25.740 --> 04:31.500 Sometimes when you install a new plug in a window will pop up or a new banner will pop up at the top 04:31.500 --> 04:35.680 of your screen that will kind of guide you through using that plug in. 04:35.700 --> 04:39.900 So we could just click Start here to view this photo gallery plug in. 04:39.930 --> 04:42.210 You can see that it added to menu items. 04:42.210 --> 04:44.970 The photo gallery and the photo gallery add ons. 04:45.150 --> 04:51.120 Now I personally have never even used this gallery plug in before so I would have to walk myself through 04:51.120 --> 04:51.890 this to learn. 04:51.900 --> 04:55.440 But that's what I'm going to do with the rest of the plug and I'll know how to use them and I'll walk 04:55.440 --> 04:57.600 you through them in a little bit more depth. 04:57.630 --> 05:00.300 But in this lesson I just wanted to show you how to answer. 05:00.610 --> 05:05.470 So let's go back to our installed plugins page and learn how to delete a plug in. 05:05.560 --> 05:11.350 Sometimes after you've installed a plug into the window keeps popping up so until you click the dismiss 05:11.350 --> 05:13.260 button it's just going to keep popping up. 05:13.390 --> 05:19.060 Hello Dolly plug in is automatically installed and this is one that I want to delete because it really 05:19.060 --> 05:20.020 serves no purpose. 05:20.020 --> 05:21.630 You can read what it means right here. 05:21.670 --> 05:25.500 So I'm going to deactivate it because right now I can't delete it. 05:25.510 --> 05:27.180 I have to deactivate it first. 05:27.370 --> 05:30.930 So I clicked deactivate once it's deactivated from my web site. 05:30.940 --> 05:37.180 I can now delete it by clicking the delete button and confirming that I want to delete the other thing 05:37.180 --> 05:39.550 I want to mention is updating. 05:39.550 --> 05:44.480 There are different ways to update your plug ins but one is by going to this installed plugins page. 05:44.710 --> 05:50.050 And here we can see that the mojo marketplace plug in which was installed when I installed WordPress 05:50.050 --> 05:56.200 with blue hosts needs an update and has this little banner right here I can click Update now here or 05:56.530 --> 06:02.860 I can go to dashboard update and we saw this earlier in the course where this is sort of your home page 06:02.860 --> 06:03.870 for updates. 06:03.910 --> 06:08.290 It will include updates for Wordpress itself for plug ins or themes. 06:08.290 --> 06:12.430 It's interesting right now it doesn't show that that mojo marketplace needs an update. 06:12.460 --> 06:14.580 So it's important to check both places. 06:14.680 --> 06:18.740 So back on the installed plugins page I'm just going to click update now. 06:18.760 --> 06:25.060 Now for best practices it's important to check if the update is good to go for your web site search 06:25.060 --> 06:26.500 on their Web site. 06:26.500 --> 06:30.640 Go to those plug ins Web site and see what the details are with the new plug in. 06:30.680 --> 06:36.670 Sometimes I've updated a plug in and there was some sort of a glitch with it and it either messed up 06:36.670 --> 06:38.770 my web site or it messed up that plug in. 06:38.770 --> 06:43.480 So you want to make sure that everyone's happy with the update at the same time you need to balance 06:43.480 --> 06:49.100 this out with making sure you update frequently because if you leave a plug in not updated. 06:49.120 --> 06:51.540 There might be a glitch with that plug in. 06:51.550 --> 06:54.760 Perhaps there was a vulnerability that could lead to hacking. 06:54.760 --> 07:00.610 So you want to make sure that you do update your plug ins because usually it means that the creator 07:00.610 --> 07:04.650 of that plug in is fixing a problem or making it even better. 07:04.750 --> 07:09.110 So that's how you find install and activate any new plug in. 07:09.130 --> 07:12.400 Also how you delete plug ins in the follow up lessons. 07:12.400 --> 07:18.250 I'm going to be going over a specific task that I encourage you to do for your web site before you launch 07:18.250 --> 07:19.080 it to the world.