The Antideo plugin for WordPress can be installed from the WordPress dashboard directly and is the easiest of the methods for setting up our Email Validation Plugin for WordPress. But there are more tech savvy users who like to be in total control and install plugin themselves, and this article is a step by step guide for such users.

Go to the Antideo plugin page

You can go to our email validator plugin page on wordpress.org that is a directory for WordPress plugins.

Click on the blue button to download the ZIP file of the plugin to your computer

Unzipping Files and Setting things up

Since you have downloaded the zipped plugin files you would need to unzip them to start with the installation process. Most of the computer operating systems would have inbuilt capabilities to unzip files.Once you are done unzipping the files extract the directory from the plugin and put it in an easy to access directory on your computer.

Upload and Installation

Now you need to connect via FTP to your server to access the WordPress files. If you experience any roadblocks during the process, you can reach out to your hosting provider or access FTP for beginners for basic steps around enabling FTP or troubleshooting.

Once you have the FTP access you need to get into the wp-content folder that would be within your WordPress installation. The location of your WordPress installation would be different depending on the hosting provider you use. Would be ideal that you go through their help literature to identify the steps to access the WordPress installation, before you get into your server using FTP

Within the wp-content folder you will find another folder called plugins that houses all of the plugins on your WordPress site. Upload the unzipped Antideo folder in the plugins folder on the server.

Activating Antideo WordPress plugin

Login to your WordPress admin dashboard the usual way and see if the plugin you just uploaded appears in your plugin area when you click on plugins under the admin menu.

The next step in the process to install the Antideo plugin would be to click on ‘Activate’ to get the plugin activated and rolling. Do remember to go through the settings page to see what capabilities of the email validation plugin you would like to utilize.

You can also read Antideo Email Validation WordPress Plugin Explained to discover what the terms within the Antideo plugin dashboard mean and the options available.