I have wordpress.com and I want the plugins. Do I have to have a domain to be able to get the plugi

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  lavonnegradyphotography · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 2:50 am

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  I want plugins. How do I convert from wordpress.com to wordpress.org? Do I have to have a domain in order to get the plugins?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality. You are confusing WordPress.ORG and WordPress.COM. For that type of functionality you’d need a self-hosted site running on a paid web hosting service.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You can learn how to get started with a self-hosted WordPress site over at the Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress – if you decide that’s the route you want to take. Understand that we do not provide support for that here at WordPress.COM.

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
  Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

  Get web hosting here http://wordpress.org/hosting
  Move your content:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/