Options missing in my dashboard, update and plugins

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  missperfectmakeup · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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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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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:13 pm

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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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  missperfectmakeup · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:44 pm

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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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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:47 pm

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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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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:48 pm

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  edit: “predeceased” was meant to be “purchased”

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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:48 pm

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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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  missperfectmakeup · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:53 pm

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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?
  Thanks a lot!

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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 7:58 pm

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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/

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  missperfectmakeup · Member · May 3, 2013 at 8:02 pm

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  Thanks for all your help.
  is there anyway I could change my blog to WordPress.Org then??

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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 8:05 pm

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  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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  missperfectmakeup · Member · May 3, 2013 at 8:07 pm

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  Thanks! you have been very helpfull

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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2013 at 8:08 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.