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Plugins

WordPress plugins,
installed from your shell.

All four are free software under the GPL, published as signed releases, and installable in four commands over SSH. Every command on these pages was run against the file it downloads before it was written down.

Before you start

What these commands assume.

A shell on the server

SSH, or a hosting panel terminal. On our shared hosting that is SSH; on a VPS or a dedicated server it is the machine itself.

curl and unzip

Both are present on every plan we sell. If unzip is missing, WordPress's own plugin uploader takes the same .zip file.

The path to wp-content/plugins

Every command below writes into that directory and nowhere else. Replace the placeholder with your own path before running it.

WP-CLI, for the last step only

Activation is one command with WP-CLI. Without it, the plugin appears in Plugins → Installed Plugins and you activate it there.

/path/to/wordpress Replace with the directory that contains wp-config.php.

Stuck on an install

Send us the command and what it printed.

The output of the command that failed tells us more than a description of it does. Paste it in — there is nothing secret in a download.