Adding plugins on a free wordpress.com site
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I want to add a discussion forum plugin to my wordpress.com site (free plan). I don’t think my plan supports this feature. If not, does the premium plan support such a plugin, or do I have to upgrade to the business plan.
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Hi I’m not a web designer so hopefully someone can expand on this answer. I was asked to build a web site for our local badminton team. No cost and lots of features such as emailing from built in forms, questionnaires, videos, sophisticated calendars and access to simple discussions. I found I could do this if I ran WordPress on my laptop (using easyPHP to create a hosting environment) by using Widgets/plugins. However, to do the same on the Free WordPress.com I needed to embed links/code to other sites such as Dropbox and google Drive. It’s very simple for example create a form on Drive copy the embedded link and paste it to your wordpress page.
The output from the form can be viewed using a link to the resulting spreadsheet. Beware this works fine but is only for simple sites and doesn’t look professional. I now use WordPress integrated with other free sites as a document repository. -
We do not have FTP access to wordpress.COM hosted blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins, we cannot use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any others, as they are JavaScript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins into a wordpress.COM hosted blog. To have that kind of access you need to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting and set up a wordpress.ORG software install.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
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For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options. See here: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/
One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-linksAnother is to create another wordpress.com hosted blog using the P2 Breathe theme https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/p2-breathe/ and and include a custom link to the new forum blog in your custom menu in your main blog.
The Tlk.io widget may be useful for your group. It allows you to embed a web chat in your WordPress.COM hosted blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tlk-io-widget/ There are no other chat options I know of that work on WordPress.COM blogs at this time.
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