After the plugin is activated, the Dashboard shows the messages “FreedomPay requires a Merchant ID to work.” and the same about the Merchant Key. This is expected: the plugin is installed, but not configured yet. The messages disappear after you set the Merchant ID and the Merchant Key in the plugin settings.
To install the plugin, go to your site's Dashboard:
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Select “Plugins” in the left panel, and when the window opens, click the “Add Plugin” button:
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In the window that opens, in the search bar on the right at the top, type “FreedomPay”. When WordPress shows the search results, click the “Install Now” button on the Freedom Pay plugin. After successful installation, in the same place, click the “Activate” button:
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After completing the above steps, WordPress should automatically take you to the installed plugins page, where you can check if the installation was correct:
If automatic installation using the WordPress plugin directory is not available for some reason, an advanced user or developer can install the plugin manually by placing the plugin files in the WordPress plugins directory.
To accomplish this, you need to take some steps:
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Download a copy of the SVN repository that contains the plugin's source code and resources: plugins.svn.wordpress.org/freedompay-payment-gateway (this can be done using the svn/subversion utility on unix-like systems):
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Next, you need to copy the trunk directory from the downloaded copy to the WordPress plugins directory (by default, this is wp-content/plugins), and rename it to “freedompay-payment-gateway”:
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After this, you have to go to the page of installed WordPress plugins and activate the Freedom Pay plugin: