adding pinterest is NOT working!! no matter what I do

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  brownswissmomma · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 6:58 pm

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  followed all of the walk throughs and still did not find a solution for adding a pinterest to the blog I cannot link it: so far I tried navigating through the TOOLS and adding the mega link or whatever that was called the second thing I did was make a new page with the pinterest html as the title first I opened the verification file in text view in note pad and copied all of it in the text section of the page…that also did not work then I just copied the verification code it self…the numbers and put it as the text it did not work I am out of options those are all the options that wordpress gives so do you have another idea??

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  timethief · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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  We WordPress.COM hosted bloggers are unable to access metadata on WordPress.COM blogs and insert anything at all into the <header>. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ Our WordPress.com hosted blogs, unlike WordPress.ORG installs which are each free standing, share a common architecture. Hence, what you ask for can only be done on a WordPress.ORG install. Read the differences here please http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Added information:
  The follow the Pinterest Site Verification instructions provided in the support docs which are all at http://support.wordpress.com
  Go to http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#pinterest-site-verification

  Note that The pin it button is JavaScript and cannot be used on WordPress.COM hosted blogs.

  Go to Dashboard > Sharing please and use this guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#customize-your-services to enable a sharing icon so it will display under each post.

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/embed-from-pinterest/