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  dknott715 · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 3:38 pm

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  I would like to be able to embed widgets into my blog but am unable to do so. I did check the forum and information sections and see that plugins are not allowed for security reasons. I understand and appreciate your security consciousness but it seems to me that you could vet some of the more popular things and allow them to be embeded. I may be looking into moving my blog to another format that does allow embedding.

  I don’t understand the difference between self-hosted WordPress blogs. How do they work? Do they allow embedding of files? If I switch, can I keep my url?
  Blog url: http://teentomes.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm

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  We don’t allow plugins on WordPress.com for security reasons. Plugins are a feature only available for self-hosted blogs provided through WordPress.org.

  However, we do have some really cool widgets. Perhaps one of those might meet your needs?

  There are no restrictions if you setup a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities. We have hosting recommendations at the following link if you are interested.