no plugin tab on my dashboard
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i want to map my adsense account to my wordpress.com blog.how can i do that? please help.
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What do you mean by “a tag”? And what does that have to do with plugins which we cannot have on wordpress.com blogs? Are you refderring to displaying the tags you assigned to your posts in a Tag Cloud widget?
Appearance > Widgets > Tag Cloud
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-tags/
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Sorry, couldn’t find where to submit a question or start a new thread. As a side note you may also want to work on your etiquette. Whether intended, or not, you came across as an expletive in your comment.
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Sorry, couldn’t find where to submit a question or start a new thread.
Here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/press the Add new topic » button, please.
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stephenwinburn, may I suggest not taking offense at simple directions? This is a technical help forum, and we give simple directions here all the time.
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I am in the same boat. I had a plug-ins tab under appearance (that is how I activated Akismet) but now it is totally not there. and yes – it is a WordPress.com. If it was never there I would understand, just don’t know why it was and now is not. I am trying to add an interesting photo gallery and so wanted to apply NextGen. The problem is Vuvox embed codes don’t work so trying to find something that does. Any suggestions??
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If you had read this thread you would have seen that self-hosted wordpress blogs have a plugins tab. WordPress.COM blogs do not and never have.
Plugins are for self-hosted blogs.
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If WordPress consistently gives “tutorials” on how to install plugins, complete with SCREEN SHOTS of a plugin tab, LOGIC states that plugins work with wordpress sites. Why on earth would WordPress give advice on a feature that is not allowed in WordPress. It makes no sense, I do not believe it, and if it’s true there is a SERIOUS FLAW with WordPress. End of sentence. I’ll post when and if I find a real answer.
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These replies state two opposite things: That plugins do NOT work on “self-hosted” blogs, and that plugins work ONLY on “self-hosted” blogs. Which is true? If one establishes a wordpress site, isn’t that where the site is hosted? You keep repeating these contradictory statements but have still offered no real answers. That’s why people keep asking the same question.
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@sarah, there are TWO types of wordpress. There is this free hosting service, wordpress.COM and self-hosted wordpress blogs using the stand-alone software from wordpress.ORG.
Since this wordpress.COM hosting service is a multi-user version, it means we all share the same underlying files and that means that any security hole or bug that one blogger would introduce would affect all of us potentially. There are a lot of very poorly written plugins, themes and widgets out there and there are even some with malware built right into them. Sad but true. These are the main reasons that plugins cannot be used at the wordpress.com hosting service. Would you want me installing a plugin that ended up taking down your blog?
Plugins work on self-hosted blogs where YOU are entirely responsible. If YOU install a plugin and it kills your blog or starts distributing malware and gets your blog deleted by your web host for infecting the web server or distributing malware (whether you knew it or not), that is YOUR problem.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/And people keep asking the same questions because the don’t know the difference between .COM and .ORG blogs. And the fact that thousands of people sign up everyday, so there is always a fresh crop of people that do not understand.
If you want plugins, register yourself a domain name, hire a webhost such as godaddy, etc., install and configure the wordpress software from wordpress.ORG and you are on your way. Figure an average overall cost of $10 to $25 per month depending on bandwidth and storage requirements.
YOU will be responsible for all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure out what and fix it. If you install a plugin that kills your blog, you have to fix it.
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Having your own URL is a choice. You do not have to have one, and in that case it is free. And, at $20 per year for a domain and domain mapping, it is between 7% and 17% of the total cost of self-hosting (including domain registration) your own blog ($120 to $300 per year) depending on bandwidth and storage requirements.
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raincoster, who died and made you self proclaimed admin of this blog?
Question for everyone else: what’s an equivalent widget for the “you might also like” plugin?
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