Plugin and custom theme not available on Hostgater hosted site.

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  varunnagwekar · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 5:46 am

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  I know this question has been asked a lot many times and answered a lot many times, but I am still confused and do not have my answer yet.

  All I want is plugin and custom theme availability. But no matter what I do, I cannot get it done. I also understand that there is a difference between .com and .org wordpress. Maybe this is where I am going wrong?

  Here is what I did.

  1- I registered and mapped a domain on wordpress.com for $17
  2- Got one month hosting at Hostgator.
  3- Changed my nameservers to
  ns3469.hostgator.com
  ns3470.hostgator.com
  4- Tried both QuickInstall and Fantastico installation on both the main directory and a sub directory in different attempts. (did at least 4-5 attempts)
  5- Logged into my control panel through my admin panel ==>> http://techsutradotorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin

  In short, I have my own domain, (techsutra.org) and my own hosting. If I am not wrong, I am no longer hosting on wordpress.com, so what am I doing wrong?

  Help would be greatly appreciated, I have been trying to solve this problem since a week without any success. I am on the verge of losing my mind.

  Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 5:55 am

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  You mapped the domain – not needed and not sure what it will do

  However- you should be logging into your Hostgator site at:

  http://techsutra.org/wp-login.php

  You also need to make friends over at WordPress.ORG: the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/

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  varunnagwekar · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 6:24 am

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  I don’t know what to write and how to write this! But http://techsutra.org/wp-login.php worked!

  I swear I had used this link before but don’t know why i didn’t show my plugins. Maybe it was before I had changed the name servers. A lot of confusion and frustration on my part.

  Man, this really has solved my problem. Thank you brother.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 6:30 am

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  If you mapped your domain name to your WordPress.COM blog then logging in at the link I gave you would not have shown Plug-in’s as Plug-in’s are not allowed on WordPress.COM sites.

  You be welcome & good luck

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  varunnagwekar · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 7:59 am

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  I had mapped first on wordpress while registering my domain. I then transferred it to hostgator. I think I did a stupid thing by mapping first on WordPress.com, I foolishly paid $5 more to host on wordpress when actually what i needed was my own hosting. Should have done more research on this subject.

  Sigh, lesson learned the hard way. :(

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 8:50 am

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  If it has been less than 30 days, you can get a refund on the domain mapping. Contact staff if it has and request a refund, or check in the “store” page and there might be a link there to request the refund.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ search for anything, scroll down, click “No…” and the form will appear.