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  medicalassistantnetwork · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 6:30 pm

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  I want to add paypal to my site. I have downloaded paypal but the instructions say to go to my plugin page and I do not see paypal on my plug in page. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 6:41 pm

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  There is no FTP access to wordpress.com blogs and no blogger installed plugin capability. Those exist only on wordpress.ORG software installs and no upgrade alters that reality. WordPress.COM hosted sites have some built in plugins.

  No FTP access http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  No blogger installed plugins http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  If you require plugins see: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
  https://move.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 6:42 pm

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  There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM and you cannot add a shopping cart to sites hosted by wordpress.COM regardless of upgrades. E-commerce options have been removed from WordPress.COM.

  Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations you have two options.

  (1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.

  (2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  If what I provided above at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress where you can set up a secure payment system http://move.wordpress.com