1. You can add\u00a0plugins<\/a>\u00a0to your site by going to your site Dashboard<\/strong> and choosing\u00a0Plugins<\/strong>\u00a0in the left-hand menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Once you have selected the plugins that you would like to activate on your site, click\u00a0Activate<\/strong>\u00a0underneath the plugin description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Once activated, the plugin title will usually appear in the left-hand menu or in the Settings menu (though sometimes they can be hard to find \u2014\u00a0contact the OpenLab<\/a>\u00a0if you need help). The plugin settings is where you can do any set up or customization of the plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This article is adapted from\u00a0City Tech OpenLab Help<\/a>, under a\u00a0CC BY-NC-SA license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add plugins to your site Plugins add functionality to your student organization, campus resource, or portfolio site.\u00a0 A plugin may allow you to create, manage, or edit features of your site that you cannot normally create, manage, or edit without the addition of a plugin.\u00a0 You can view available plugins by going to your site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-a-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/help-documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/03\/AddPlugins1.png?resize=1024%2C726&ssl=1\")
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