How to set up e-commerce on self hosted site?

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  mightywov · Member · May 7, 2012 at 9:59 pm

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  I can’t find a “plug ins” area to try and set up an e-commerce store. Could you help please?
  Blog url: http://mightywomenofvisiondotcom.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 7, 2012 at 10:05 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.

  Plugins

  While you can sell your work on your blog, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing, or reselling of work created or services provided by other people is allowed on WordPress.com.

  This link will give you instructions for using a Paypal button on your blog:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  If you require e-commerce/shopping cart functionality beyond this, you might be interested in a self-hosted (WordPress.org) installation. There are no restrictions on e-commerce if you set up a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities.

  Please see this link to learn about the differences:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  We have hosting recommendations at the following link if you are interested:

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