Plugins extend and expand the functionality of your blog.
Edublogs is powered by a customised version of WordPress multisite. While there are over 4,000 plugins that you can use on single installs of self hosted WordPress most of these won’t work on WordPress Multisite.
All plugins installed on Edublogs have been throughly tested and customized to ensure they are compatible and don’t cause problems. You can’t upload plugins to your blog.
To Activate a Plugin
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1. Go to Plugins in your dashboard
2. Click on Activate below the desired plugin

3. Some plugins have an administration page where you can set options specific for that plugin.
- Most plugins with configuration options add a new item under the Settings menu.
- Some plugins also add widgets to Appearance > Widgets

4. To switch off a plugin click Deactivate



