Options missing in my dashboard, update and plugins
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I have a wordpress.com blog and on my dashboard I cannot find the update option. Also when trying to add widgets such as the Instagram one i also see i dont have the option to upload the plugins or the plugins option itself. Please help. My theme is Chateau
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Note: There is no FTP access to our free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install plugins.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/FTP access and plugins are only for VIP bloggers http://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/ or for those with WordPress.ORG installs.
All wordpress updates are done by Staff here at WordPress.com
Please read this comparison so you are clear on the differences http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Thank you but I dont understand. My friend has just started a blog and she can see on her dashboard the plugins option so that she can upload them, and it is not a VIP blogger, nor a Pro.
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Then she does not have a free hosted WordPress>COM blog as none of our blogs have plugin tabs. Only WordPress>ORG blogs do, unless your friend has predeceased VIP hosting which is unlikely.
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Specifically there is no FTP access to http://missperfectmakeup.wordpress.com/ and you cannot install any plugins into that blog.
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Ok, thanks for your answer. One more question. All I wanted to do is to install an Instagram widget and at the wordpress site I found how to do it and I downloaded the files that needed to be upload onto my blog (apparently through the pluggings option), how do I do this then?
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You can’t as we cannot install any JavaScript widgets for security reasons. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
See here for what you can do: http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/instagram/ -
Thanks for all your help.
is there anyway I could change my blog to WordPress.Org then?? -
Yes. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up a WordPress.org install. http://wordpress.org/
After you do that you can move your WordPress.com blog content (not the theme or text widget content) to the new install.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ -
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