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If WordPress themes are all about the layout of your website, WordPress plugins are all about its features and functionality. Plugins are programs made up of one or multiple functions that integrate with a WordPress site to enhance it with new features.
But this definition, while accurate, doesn't even begin to give you an idea of what your website can become by using plugins on top of WordPress. You can do pretty much anything you like. You can install booking systems for your hotel, allow users to create an account and access a private area on your site, create a forum for your community... And you can also boost your site's visibility in Google by using top-quality SEO plugins.
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Add all the widgets you like. There's widgets of all kinds! You can incorporate weather forecast on your site and make sure all your recent or most popular posts are viewable. Or you can pull in reviews from Tripadvisor, Google Places and more. Or even publish real-time stock market info... You get the idea. There are so many widgets available that some of the most popular items in this category are widget control systems. These plugins allow you to easily manage all your widgets from one sidebar or dashboard, making it way easier than having a sidebar for each one of them.
Do what you want with images and media. Want to add a beautiful video background to your homepage? Or maybe you need a video player-with the possibility of adding playlists as well, and even choosing different skins. And you want to throw in some SEO magic as well. There's a plugin for that-more than one, actually! Same goes for images. There are heaps of options for media and image galleries of all sorts. Mobile friendly, built with jQuery or JavaScript-you'll sure find something that suits your needs.
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Also, when I hover over "Plugins" on the admin menu I don't get the usual popup submenu showing "Install New / Add / Editor". And when I click the Plugins menu I don't see those submenu options either.
5 years after but I guess Ill add my 2 cents. Dont choose the plugin option on the left bar menu. instead, go to the top left on your screen and hover on my sites and on that sub-menu then hover on network admin and choose plugins there. Once that is done you will get the missing sub menu option to add new and the delete option will also become available once again on the activate, deactivate sub menu as well. cheers
There's a lot of similar responses to this question, but none of them fully touch on the root cause. Sebastian Schmid's comment on the original post touches on it but not fully. Here's my take as of 2018-11-06:
When you try to upload a plugin through the WordPress admin interface, WordPress will make a call over to a function called "get_filesystem_method()" (ref: /wp-admin/includes/file.php:1549). This routine will attempt to write a file to the location in question (in this case the plugin directory). It can of course fail here immediately if file permissions aren't setup right to allow the WordPress user (think the user identity executing the php) to write the file to the location in question.
If the file can be created, this function then detects the file owner of the temporary file, along with the file owner of the function's current file (ref: /wp-admin/includes/file.php:1572) and compares the two. If they match then, in WordPress's words, "WordPress is creating files as the same owner as the WordPress files, this means it's safe to modify & create new files via PHP" and your plugin is uploaded successfully without the FTP Credentials prompt. If they don't match, you get the FTP Credentials prompt.
I'm not overly keen on specifically applying file ownership to the file.php to work around this issue (it feels a tad hacky to say the least!). It seems to me at this point that the WordPress code base is leaning towards having us execute the PHP process under the same user principal as the file owner for the WordPress application files. I would welcome some comments from the community on this.
(You may also need to chmod some folders too. I had done that first and it didn't fix it. It wasn't until I did the chown command that it worked, so I'm not sure if it was the chown command alone, or a combination of chmod and chown.)
WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can't access the files directly. This is usually caused by PHP running as the apache user (mod_php or CGI) rather than the user that owns your WordPress files.
This is rather normal in most shared hosting environments - the files are stored as the user, and Apache runs as user apache or httpd. This is actually a good security precaution so exploits and hacks cannot modify hosted files. You could circumvent this by setting all WP files to 777 security, but that means no security, so I would highly advise against that. Just use FTP, it's the automatically advised workaround with good reason.
FTP_BASE is the full path to the "base"(ABSPATH) folder of the WordPress installationFTP_CONTENT_DIR is the full path to the wp-content folder of the WordPress installation.FTP_PLUGIN_DIR is the full path to the plugins folder of the WordPress installation.
hides that window but then we still had problems with loading themes and upgrades etc. It is related to permissions however in our case we fixed the problem by moving from php OS vendor mod_php to the more secure php OS vendor FastCGI application.
To solve it, try running ps aux to see which user owns the php-fpm process. Then check that user is the same user as the owner of the wordpress folder, or can at least write to it. If the user can't write to it, you'll need to change permissions and/or ownership of the folder; or put the two users (server owner and wordpress folder owner) in a common group which can write to the folder; or change php.ini "user" property to a user that can write to the folder.
I have an iPad from where I am building my site. I tried to look for plugins but nowhere on the dashboard or the WP menu could I find the plugins. Usually I understand it should appear under appearance but I could not find it there either.
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