Finding the plugins included in the plan quickly.
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Hi!
I have three sites on wordpress. Two personal and one free.
I would like to have a quick way from the “plugin menu” or from the “plan menu” to find out which plugins that are included in the plan or and which are not.After some searching I found a page on support (https://wordpress.com/sv/support/tillagg/)
that listed the different features and some of the plugins. And also a link to this idea-forum.It is hard to know if what I want to add to my site already is included or if I will cost some extra.
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Hello There
WordPress does come with built-in extensions and functionalities and this link here explains it all in detail.
https://wordpress.com/support/plugins/It s my understanding however that the personal and premium plan does not allow you to install plugins ( except for a few plugin like blocks ) but just as you have mentioned, what you want may be one of the built-in functionalities.
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Maybe if you explain what functionality you want to add to your sites I would be able to help you figure out if you can do that on a personal plan or if there will be a need to upgrade.
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Well yes, as I wrote in my post – I did find that page. But after too much time spent looking. I want a quick way from one of the menus in the admin panel.
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Well yes, as I wrote in my post – I did find that page. But after too much time spent looking. I want QUICK or SHORT WAY from one of the menus in the admin panel.
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Hi. I’ve tagged the topic for staff attention. Staff will respond here ASAP.
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https://wordpress.com/support/plugins/#built-in-plugins lists all the plugins that are included on the WPcom platform. Perhaps the English page is more comprehensive than the page in Swedish. (?)
The screenshot of the Plugins dashboard that @ggmoyo provided shows plugins that can be installed on your WPcom site if you have the Business or E-commerce upgrade:
https://wordpress.com/support/business-plan/
https://wordpress.com/support/ecommerce/Also, you mentioned,
I have three sites on wordpress. Two personal and one free.
As a part of your Personal upgrade plan, you can access direct email support with WPcom’s Happiness Engineers when you post in the contact form at https://wordpress.com/help/contact
Post back here if you have further questions.
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I can confirm that page lists what we have here in terms of plugins.
There are also some exclusive content blocks and features available in Personal, like these:
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/donations/
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/premium-content-block/
https://wordpress.com/support/grow-your-community/I’ll pass along a request to get those added to the list.
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Hi folks,
@maricaohlsson said,I would like to have a quick way from the “plugin menu” or from the “plan menu” to find out which plugins that are included in the plan or and which are not…after too much time spent looking. I want a quick way from one of the menus in the admin panel.
I understand this to mean that she presently finds it necessary while searching through plugins in the Plugin Browser (https://wordpress.com/plugins), for example, to repeatedly consult the lists of plugins in the Plugins support page (English, Swedish) to determine whether a plugin is already included in the plan on a site.
So a couple of questions arise for me:
1. Is it true that the Plugin Browser displayed for a particular site/plan combination includes plugins that are already built-in on all WordPress.com sites, or included in the plan presently applied on the site you’re doing the search on?2. If the answer to either part of 1. above is yes, then this would obviously be less than ideal. So the second question would be “Wouldn’t it be better if the list of available plugins offered in the Plugins Browser vary according to the plan applied to site for which one is doing the search?” Alternatively, those plugins which are already built-in on all WordPress.com sites, and those which are included on the specific plan applied to the present site, could be marked accordingly in the Plugin Browser, if that’s not already the case. This seems to be what @maricaohlsson is asking for or suggesting.
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2nd question revised (I’d omitted half of the argument):
“Wouldn’t it be better if the lists of available plugins offered in the Plugins Browser omit those plugins which are already built-in on all WordPress.com sites and vary according to the plan applied to site for which one is doing the search, also omitting plugins included in the present plan?”
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The plugin browser lists all plugin available on the WordPress.org plugin directory, and that aren’t specifically blocked on WordPress.com for compatibility reasons.
It doesn’t indicate whether any plugins are already built in, because no actual plugins are built in. What’s built in is a number of features that would require the use of plugins on a standard WordPress installation.
If you look at the list in https://wordpress.com/support/plugins/#built-in-plugins, it lists features, not the names of specific plugins (Akismet being the only exception to that).
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Hi @kokkieh
Coming back to the original question, does this mean then that
1. What users on the premium plan and below have are plugin-like functionalities and they are not listed in any specific section?
2. The only quick way to know whether you can access a certain plugin is to upgrade to Business plan or higher and search for the plugin with the hope that it is not, for compatibility reasons, blocked on WordPress.com? -
1. What users on the premium plan and below have are plugin-like functionalities and they are not listed in any specific section?
Plugin-like functionality is a good way to describe it, yes. And those aren’t listed anywhere in the dashboard, no, as they’re simply features that are available on the site.
2. The only quick way to know whether you can access a certain plugin is to upgrade to Business plan or higher and search for the plugin with the hope that it is not, for compatibility reasons, blocked on WordPress.com?
You should be able to search for plugin at My Site ->Tools ->Plugins without upgrading.
If a plugin is blocked for compatibility reasons, it will not come up in that search at all.
On the other hand, a plugin appearing there isn’t a guarantee that it’s compatible. It just means we haven’t yet identified it as incompatible (there are tens of thousands of plugins, so we can’t test them all for compatibility) :)
We have a list of know plugins and types of plugins that are incompatible here:
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It doesn’t indicate whether any plugins are already built in, because no actual plugins are built in. What’s built in is a number of features that would require the use of plugins on a standard WordPress installation.
Got it, thanks. So given that, I would modify accordingly the alternative suggestion in my item #2 above, like so:
Plugins listed in the Plugin Browser that correspond to features that are either built-in on all WordPress.com sites or included in specific plans, features that (in each case) would require the use of plugins on a standard WordPress installation, could perhaps be marked or otherwise identified accordingly in the Plugin Browser. Something like this might approach what @maricaohlsson is asking for or suggesting.
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