How to activate newly downloaded widgets

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  cmcconachie03 · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 4:15 am

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  In my http://mybestretirementplan.wordpress.com/ blog, I want to add social links to either my blog page or home page. I downloaded this social links widget wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-social-link-widget and am wondering now how to move it into the right directory and activate it, so that I can see it in my list of available widgets. I don’t see this option in my admin screen. Where can I find this?

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  micahcooksey · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 4:23 am

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  Hello,

  You’ll need to ask your questions here. This forum is strictly for WordPress.com blogs.

  This article in the WordPress Codex should answer your questions, however. Alternately, you can use the built-in plugin installer.

  Any further help will have to come from the WordPress.org forums.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 4:26 am

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  @cmcconachie03, if you are talking about the site linked to your username which is hosted here at wordpress.com, we cannot use plugins for security reasons. Plugins are only for self-hosted wordpress installations using the software from wordpress.ORG.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 8:27 pm

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  WordPress.com has social links built in. Go to Settings → Sharing to see what sharing buttons are available.

  On WordPress.org, you can use the Jetpack plugin to get the same sharing buttons.

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  cmcconachie03 · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 9:24 pm

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  OK…thank you! This brings up another question though and perhaps the reason for my confusion about activating widgets in the first place…I started developing the blog under : http://mybestretirementplan.wordpress.com/. After this was alrerady underway, I was given the URL for the “ultimate” blog address, once I am finished with it. I chose the option in WordPress to map this blog to the following URL (Go Daddy is the host) http://www.mybestretirementplan.com. This is where I ultimately want it to be, so is there a way to make this change or do I have to “remap” it somehow?

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  micahcooksey · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 9:50 pm

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  @cmcconachie03 – please follow the instructions given in this article to map your domain to your blog: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/#instructions-for-mapping-an-existing-domain

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  cmcconachie03 · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 10:08 pm

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  I will and thank you!!!

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  micahcooksey · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 10:12 pm

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  No problem. Hopefully that article makes sense and you’re able to get it working!

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  cmcconachie03 · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 1:34 am

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  Hello again…
  I attempted to go through the instructions that you referred me to earlier; however, I could not get through step 2 under “Instructions for Mapping an Existing Domain”. When I attempt to Add the domain, http://www.mybestretirementplan.com to my blog, it says it already exists. I remember going through step 1 earlier with the name servers on Go Daddy, but must have left out some steps on the WordPress end. So basically, what I have is a domain name that is mapped to a blog under my account, however, I really need to map it permanently to another blog under my account, http://mybestretirementplan.wordpress.com, and can’t figure out how this is done. I welcome your thoughts!

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 1:42 am

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  If you need to change it from one blog to another, you may need to contact staff to make the switch.