- Navigate to Plugins Add New. Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the screen. Select the zip file from your local filesystem. Click the Install Now button. When installation is complete, you'll see 'Plugin installed successfully.' Click the Activate Plugin button at the bottom of the page.
- The WordPress Plugin Directory is the largest directory of free and open source WordPress plugins. Find out how to host your plugin on WordPress.org. Create a Plugin. Building a plugin has never been easier. Read through the Plugin Developer Handbook to learn all about WordPress plugin development.
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Plugins
On WordPress.com, we include the most popular plugin functionality within our sites automatically. Additionally, the Business or eCommerce plan allows you to choose from many thousands of plugins, and install them on your site.
If you are already on our Business or eCommerce plan and need information about managing your plugins, please see this support document.
Built-in Features
These features come as standard for all WordPress.com sites, without any need for you to install a plugin.
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- Essential SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Advanced galleries (tiled, mosaic, slideshows, and more)
- Social Media (add social media buttons to your posts and pages)
- Extended Widgets (Flickr, Eventbrite, Google Calendar, Twitter, and more)
- Akismet (advanced anti-spam security)
- Backup & Export (24/7 backup of your entire site)
- Extended Shortcodes (video, audio, and more)
- Email subscriptions (follow button)
- Advanced Commenting (comment likes, user mentions, notifications, and more)
- Likes (for Posts)
- Embeds (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more)
Included with Personal plan and higher:
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- Payments block (recurring or one time payments with Stripe)
- Premium Content block (restrict content to paying subscribers only)
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- Custom Design (custom fonts, CSS editor, and more)
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Plugins
On WordPress.com, we include the most popular plugin functionality within our sites automatically. Additionally, the Business or eCommerce plan allows you to choose from many thousands of plugins, and install them on your site.
If you are already on our Business or eCommerce plan and need information about managing your plugins, please see this support document.
Built-in Features
These features come as standard for all WordPress.com sites, without any need for you to install a plugin.
Click here to see a list of all built-in WordPress.com features.- WordPress.com stats (our version of Google Analytics)
- Essential SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Advanced galleries (tiled, mosaic, slideshows, and more)
- Social Media (add social media buttons to your posts and pages)
- Extended Widgets (Flickr, Eventbrite, Google Calendar, Twitter, and more)
- Akismet (advanced anti-spam security)
- Backup & Export (24/7 backup of your entire site)
- Extended Shortcodes (video, audio, and more)
- Email subscriptions (follow button)
- Advanced Commenting (comment likes, user mentions, notifications, and more)
- Likes (for Posts)
- Embeds (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more)
Included with Personal plan and higher:
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- Payments block (recurring or one time payments with Stripe)
- Premium Content block (restrict content to paying subscribers only)
- Audio block (embed audio or podcasts)
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- Custom Design (custom fonts, CSS editor, and more)
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Installing Plugins
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In addition to the built-in plugin functionality, WordPress.com Business and the eCommerce plan allow you to install other plugins. With many thousands of plugins available, you can enable your site to do almost anything.
Plugins are created by third-party developers to enhance the functionality of your WordPress.com site. Before you install a plugin, you'll want to check:
- Last updated: indicates that it is actively being supported and worked on
- Active installations: indicates a popular and well-supported plugin
- Rating: feedback from customers who installed the plugin
- Compatible: is the plugin compatible with the version of WordPress you are running
Before installing any plugins, it's always good to read over the plugin documentation to make sure you know how to use it and what it will do for your site.
To install a plugin, head to My Site → Tools → Plugins. You'll see a showcase of some featured plugins, as well as a tab for the most popular, recommended, and favorite plugins. You can also search for plugins by functionality or look for a specific plugin that you've heard about.
After you click on a plugin name, you'll see a button to install it on your site. You can also read all about the plugin – what new functionality it provides, how it works, and how to adjust its settings.
Incompatible Plugins
While the vast majority of plugins are supported here at WordPress.com, there are some that are not. This page contains a running list of these unsupported plugins and accompanying reasons why they aren't supported.
Managed Plugins
If you're on the Business Plan or eCommerce Plan and install a plugin, you may have noticed a number of plugins installed on your site for you. These plugins are responsible for key functionality of your site: Camera raw 7.
Jetpack and Akismet cannot be deactivated. However, you can deactivate specific Jetpack modules by going to My Site → WP Admin → Jetpack → Dashboard. Then scroll all the way to the bottom where you can find in the footer the Modules option as in this screenshot:
If you see notifications or update prompts related to the managed plugins, you can disregard the notification. The plugin version we have on our server for the managed plugin might have a different version from the one on https://wordpress.org/plugins/. Your site and plugins will still work as expected.
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Since Firefox version 52 was released March 7, 2017, installed NPAPI plugins have not been supported in Firefox, except for Adobe Flash Player. Some of the plugins that no longer load in Firefox, even though they may be installed on your computer, include Java, Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Acrobat.
Over the past few years, Firefox has implemented various Web APIs so that websites can do the same things they've always done without plugins, so you will most likely not notice any change to your browsing experience.
The internet is full of websites that go beyond static pages, such as video, sound and games. While NPAPI plugins, especially Flash, have helped enable these interactive pages, they also make your browsing slower, less secure and more likely to crash.
Over the past few years, Firefox has worked hard to build replacements for these plugins, these replacements are called Web APIs. Web APIs are designed to replace the function of the NPAPI plugins without undermining your internet security, stability and performance.
Before, while these Web APIs weren't quite ready, Firefox started to transition by making plugins load manually (click to activate).
Now, many sites have adopted Web APIs, and almost all your favorite pages can be enjoyed without using old and insecure plugins. Firefox joins other modern browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge by removing support for these NPAPI plugins.
We recommend that you update Firefox if you can.
Every update of Firefox includes important fixes and improvements, including improvements that help keep you secure on the Internet. Using an old version of any browser, including Firefox, puts your personal data and even your computer at risk.
Firefox has expanded to support features that used to require extra plugins. Plugins, on top of that, are also kept up-to-date automatically and managed through blocklisting for added security. So you can stay current with just one Firefox update.
