---
title: "Install the plugin — How-to Guide"
description: "Install Webhook Actions from the zip this site hands you, from your WordPress dashboard, or with one WP-CLI command."
url: "https://wpwebhooks.org/docs/install-the-plugin/"
---

[WP Webhooks](https://wpwebhooks.org/) / [Docs](https://wpwebhooks.org/docs/) / Install the plugin

How to since v1.0.0

# Install the plugin

Install Webhook Actions from the zip this site hands you, from your WordPress dashboard, or with one WP-CLI command.

Every download button on this site hands you `flowsystems-webhook-actions.zip` straight from WordPress.org — the same file the plugin directory serves, always the current stable release. A downloaded zip is installed by uploading it once in your WordPress admin, which takes about a minute. If you would rather not handle a file at all, WordPress can fetch and install the plugin for you from the same directory listing — both routes end up with the identical plugin and the identical automatic updates.

## Rather not download a file?

Go to Plugins → Add Plugin in your admin, search for "Webhook Actions", then click Install Now and Activate on the Flow Systems result. WordPress fetches the same zip from the same place — this route just skips your download folder.

## From the command line

With WP-CLI: `wp plugin install flowsystems-webhook-actions --activate`.

## Updates work either way

Installing from the zip is not a manual install in the sense that matters — the plugin keeps its WordPress.org slug, so update notices and one-click updates arrive exactly as they would had you installed it from the dashboard. The download is the current stable release, so there is nothing to update on day one.

## Requirements

WordPress 6.0 or newer. The free plugin needs nothing else — no account, no API key, no external service. Build with AI needs a model to talk to, which can be a free Google AI Studio key.

/ Setup

1.  1
    
    **Download the plugin**
    
    Click any Install Plugin button on this site. Your browser downloads the plugin as a .zip file — no WordPress.org account needed. Keep it where you can find it; you upload it once and never need it again.
    
2.  2
    
    **Upload the zip in WordPress**
    
    In your WordPress admin go to Plugins → Add Plugin, click Upload Plugin at the top, choose the zip you just downloaded, and click Install Now.
    
3.  3
    
    **Activate it**
    
    WordPress unpacks the plugin and offers an Activate Plugin button. Click it. Nothing starts sending yet — new webhooks are created disabled, so activating is safe on a live site.
    
4.  4
    
    **Open Webhook Actions**
    
    A Webhook Actions entry appears in the admin sidebar, and it opens on Build with AI. Connect a provider there — or skip it and build webhooks by hand from the Webhooks tab; the plugin does not need AI to work.
    

/ Related

[Get a free Google AI Studio API key](https://wpwebhooks.org/docs/get-google-ai-studio-api-key/)[Build with AI](https://wpwebhooks.org/docs/build-with-ai/)[Import & Export](https://wpwebhooks.org/docs/import-export/)[Webhook Actions on WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowsystems-webhook-actions/)

/Ready

## Your next automation is  
one sentence away.

[Install Plugin→](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/flowsystems-webhook-actions.zip) [See the Plugin →](https://wpwebhooks.org/wordpress-webhook-plugin/)

$ wp plugin install flowsystems-webhook-actions --activate

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