Not able to add shopping cart or Paypal button

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  fitformotherhood · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 3:32 pm

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  Hi,
  I’m trying to add either a shopping cart or Paypal button and neither will show up on my page when I paste the html for either into the HTML editor. Please help ASAP, as this is time critical for my business. I thought with a premium account I’d be able to do this.
  Blog url: http://fitformotherhood.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 3:44 pm

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  Hi there,

  You won’t be able to embed that HTML code since we remove form elements for security purposes:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  E-commerce isn’t really supported here at WordPress.com, but you can add a PayPal donate button if you wish:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  If you require e-commerce/shopping cart functionality, you might be interested in a self-hosted WordPress.org installation. There are typically no restrictions on e-commerce if you setup a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities.

  Please see this link to learn about the differences:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  We have hosting recommendations at the following link if you are interested:

  Hosting

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  fitformotherhood · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 11:31 pm

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  I switched to a self-hosted .org installation like you suggested and I still cannot get it to work. I need this fixed ASAP. This is very frustrating.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 4, 2011 at 5:37 am

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  http://fitformotherhood.com/ is still a WordPress.com blog.

  You’ll need to use the WordPress.org installation on your hosting provider if you want to add a shopping cart.