Help with plugins and self-hosting

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  katenewman1983 · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 8:47 am

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  I would like to get some plugins for my site insidenoxgroup.wordpress.com but haven’t been able to – so I am wanting to know how to upgrade so that I will be able to use plugins – do I do this by purchasing a new theme or by going premium or by self hosting? Please advise how to go about this as this free template theme is pretty uncustomisable and I need a few plugins to get it to display what I want it to…. Please let me know asap. Thanks! :) Kate

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 12:25 pm

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  Hi,

  If you just want to change the look of your site, you might want to look at the Custom Design upgrade and see if that is what you need.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  There are no additional plugins available for sites hosted at WordPress.com. These are the only plugins available and they are already built-in and you can’t add your own.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  If you want to get your own plugins, you would have to do the self-hosting at WordPress.org where you download the software and install it on your own web host.

  For more info about the differences between .com and .org, see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Good luck!

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  katenewman1983 · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 1:53 pm

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  Could you let me know if it is possible to transfer this blog over to a self-hosted one and how to do that? Could we use BlueHost?

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 2:17 pm

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  Yes, you could definitely use BlueHost.

  You need to export your blog
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

  then import into your other blog.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

  You can also do the Guided Transfer upgrade
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Hope that helps!