Plug ins - what should I see? No effect...??!

I have several RSS feeds and streams working. And I cut and pasted all the plug in's into the plug in folder. Yet to see anything other then the RSS folders in the online folder. Is there anything else I need to do to activate them?

[jhb50]

Yes, add the feeds that the plugins support to the console as rss or web resources.

[zip]

There are usually URL examples provided with each plugin: viewforum.php?f=20