No plugin tab on my blog’s dashboard

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  andkim · Member · Sep 2, 2009 at 4:49 pm

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  This is probably a really basic question, but I want to install a plugin onto my blog, but can’t find a plug-in tab on my dashboard.

  Have I not set up my blog correctly?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 2, 2009 at 4:53 pm

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  We cannot use plugins at wordpress.COM. Plugins only work with self-hosted wordpress blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG.

  http://support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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  roseknows · Member · Sep 2, 2009 at 4:54 pm

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  If you need support on a .ORG blog please check out this forum: http://wordpress.org/support/

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  andkim · Member · Sep 2, 2009 at 6:20 pm

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  thanks! I have a wordpress.com blog…. that link on com-vs-org was super helpful and cleared up something that was confusing for me for a while now… cheers!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 2, 2009 at 7:24 pm

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  You’re very welcome.

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  bvhsubscriptions · Member · Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 pm

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  will wp.com ever have plugins? if not, why?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 22, 2009 at 12:32 am

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  No, I very much doubt it.

  This is a multi-user blogging platform which means we all share the same underlying theme and wordpress files, and any bad code inserted by one blogger could possibly bring down hundreds of thousands of blogs. There is a ton of bad code floating around out there, some just because the author didn’t know what they were doing, but some done on purpose to introduce a security hole, or inject malware.