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Installing and managing plugins - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress for Education: Multisite
Installing and managing plugins
- [Voiceover] Installing plugins into your multisite network can only happen through your network admin page. Plugins can not be directly installed into individual sites. This is a really big departure from a typical WordPress site that you may be used to. But it does come with some really great benefits. Installing plugins onto your multisite network generally works exactly the same as it does in a regular site. From your network admin site, go to the install plugins page to see a list of all the plugins currently available on your network. Then, click the add new button at the top. Search for the plugin that you want to add. I'll search for multisite. This is a good starting point for finding plugins that work well with multisite. Not all do. When you find a plugin that you think has the functionality you need, such as the MultiSite Clone Duplicator, read through the description, FAQs, other notes and reviews. Look for plugins that are well rated by other users, appear to be…
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Managing network settings2m 51s
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Adding new sites2m 28s
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Add new sites from an exposed webpage2m 42s
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Managing new site message settings2m 23s
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Adding new users1m 11s
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Managing users3m 1s
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Installing and managing plugins4m 4s
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Installing and managing themes2m 8s
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Importing an existing site into a Multisite network3m 34s
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