I cannot add plugins, although my blog is self-hosted

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  detachmentcorner · Member · Sep 21, 2012 at 4:34 am

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  Hi. My blog used to have the wordpress.com extension, but then I bought the domain, so it became mysite.com, however, the dashboard still has the .wordpress.com. Now I cannot install plugins because it says that I am still with .wordpress.com. I want to add some plugins. How do I do this?
  Blog url: http://detachmentcorner.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 21, 2012 at 9:18 pm

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  Though you have mapped your domain, your blog is still hosted at WordPress.com.

  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. You can find out more about this topic here: http://support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  However, we do have several built-in features that were inspired by many popular plugins. You might find what you want by searching for it at http://en.support.wordpress.com/

  For more information on the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, please see: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/