There are four different Plugins that, by default, come with the blogs@oregonstate.edu WordPress installation:

• Popularity Contest: enables ranking of your posts by popularity, using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity
• Sociable: automatically adds links on your posts, pages, and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites
• WP-Polls: Adds an AJAX polling system to your blog.
• WP-PostRatings: adds an AJAX rating system for your blog’s post/page

Activate a Plugin

To activate a Plugin, do the following:

• From within your Dashboard, click on Plugins. This will automatically open up a list of all installed Plugins.
• Select the desired Plugin by clicking on its corresponding Activate link.
• The background on the newly activated Plugin will change to white
• Depending on the Plugin, a Settings link may also be made available.  Some Plugins may require configuration.  If a Settings link is available, click on it to go into the Settings and make any changes you desire.

Deactivate a Plugin

• From within your Dashboard, click on Plugins to open your list.
• Locate the Plugin to be deactivated and click on its corresponding Deactivate link.
• The background on the newly deactivated Plugin will change to grey