Ca I add a Forum on my free site that I am building?

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  nadiajoydating · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 9:20 pm

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  Hi I’ve just registered my site – its the free version. I wanted to know if I can have a forum on it as well as blog and an about page? If yes please can you direct me to information on how to set this up?

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  Nadia

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 4:15 pm

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  At present there is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/

  See: https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/p2-breathe/

  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-links

  We also have a single chatbox widget that will operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. The Tlk.io widget 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.

  See: Moving to self hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com