I cannot see the 'plugin' feature on my selfhosted wordpress site

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  kmricha · Member · Aug 9, 2012 at 1:08 pm

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  I want to add an SEO Yoast plugin to my self hosted site but cannot see the icon anywhere to do that. Please let me know if I need to do anything to be able to add plugins.
  Blog url: http://richaroamsdotcom.wordpress.com/

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  westi · Staff · Aug 9, 2012 at 3:01 pm

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  What is the site you want to add the plugin to?

  Your “http://richaroams.com/” site is not self hosted but is hosted here at WordPress.com and we don’t allow you to upload plugins for security reasons:

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Aug 9, 2012 at 3:11 pm

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  Are you referring to your site at http://richaroams.com? That’s not a self-hosted site, it’s hosted here at WordPress.com.

  Plugins aren’t supported here at WordPress.com — they’re a feature of self-hosted WordPress sites:

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  The good news is that we’ve baked in a lot of great features for you automatically. As far as SEO goes, we’ve got you covered. No need to install anything. :-)