Adding 'quick chat' or chat to my free blog at WordPress.com

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  msbweb · Member · Oct 19, 2013 at 12:51 am

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  I would like to add chat to my free blog at WordPress.com I see that it appears in other blogs but understand this is not possible unless I either upgrade or move my site to .org once I get a domain name which of course I have to pay for. Is this correct. Is it possible to stay with .com, upgrade and be able to have plugins such as ‘quick chat’? If so, how much would it cost to upgrade to allow this plugin? My blog is http://msbweb.wordpress.com Chat is part of our game leading up to a countdown for a mass posting around the globe to instagram and it would be so beneficial to us if we had this in one place and especially on our web link. thank you

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2013 at 3:24 am

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  At present there are no chatboxes or forums that can be embedded into free hosted WordPress.com blogs. There is no FTP access and we cannot install plugins.

  You have three free workaround forum options: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.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.
  a custom link to the forum in it.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2013 at 3:26 am

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  Is it possible to stay with .com, upgrade and be able to have plugins such as ‘quick chat’? If so, how much would it cost to upgrade to allow this plugin?

  That’s not possible. There is no FTP access and no plugin capability on free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes.

  See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate. To move to WordPress.org a brief summary of the steps involved follows.

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/