Options for hosting JavaScript

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  calvinkrishy · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 3:21 am

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  I understand that wordpress.com does not allow arbitrary JavaScript in posts and pages.

  I would like to display data from a Google Spreadsheet in my blog and would like to do that using some JavaScript (think some graphs and such using d3.js etc.,). How can I do that now?

  I prefer having wordpress.com for my site but would also like to occasionally add data from other APIs to customize my posts. Short of self hosting WordPress what options do I have?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 9:18 pm

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  You cannot post JavaScript on any WordPress.COM blog without the software stripping the code out. It’s security issue as this is a multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  Your option is to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting and set up a WordPress.ORG install. http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 22, 2014 at 3:12 am

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  You can LINK to a Google Spreadsheet, and you can take an image of it and upload that as a static PNG or something, but those are your options, basically.