Can I get plugins turned on temporarily so I can export my site?

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    tom29ddafc7c16e · Member ·

    I read this below and now I want to switch platforms to the open-sourced .org.

    >What wordpress.com gives you is not WordPress.org, it’s something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress, but actually they’re giving you a cheap knock-off and charging you more for it.

    >This is one of the many reasons they are a cancer to WordPress.org, and it’s important to remember that unchecked, cancer will spread. WordPress.com is setting a poor standard that others may look at and think is ok to replicate. We must set a higher standard to ensure WordPress is here for the next 100 years.

    > Remember that you, the customer, hold the power; they are nothing without the money you give them.

    Thank you!

    WP.com: Yes
    Jetpack: No
    Correct account: Yes

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    2020testjj · Member ·

    @tom29ddafc7c16e Are you aware that what you’ve quoted was a response to Matt Mullenweg’s recent post on WordPress.org? It does not describe in any way what WordPress.com is.

    I’ve hosted my sites on WordPress.com, both free and paid accounts, for quite a number of years (not only from this account) and I can say that WordPress.com is a full WordPress install modified to incorporate WPcom’s additions, with different levels of access and price points depending on your website needs. https://wordpress.com/pricing/

    If you need the full breadth of plug-in functionality you can upgrade your WordPress.com website to the Business plan, even for a single month, and create your export to another WordPress host, if that is what you want to do.

    Keep in mind that self-hosting your WordPress install on 3rd party hosting also means that it’s your responsibility to secure and update your site, something that WordPress.com does for us automatically and in all plans, including free, bandwidth is unlimited. Site visits/bandwidth is something most other web hosts limit and/or charge you for.

    Hope that helps to give you a fuller picture.

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    honhonjaccuse · Member ·

    Hi there! I would like to point out, what you are quoting is a misquote of this WordPress.org blog post: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

    WordPress.com prides itself on giving you the same WordPress software that anyone else in the world would use if they downloaded it from WordPress.org and on giving back to the WordPress community. A huge number of our developers contribute to the open-source WordPress project. We don’t develop an alternative version (or “fork”) of WordPress to offer you on our managed hosting platform.

    I hope this clears some things up!

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