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  werdetfit · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 9:03 am

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  Dear Support-Team,

  i am new on the market of websites.
  I opened a business, got a domain from you and wanted to create now a website. I made my research and came to the conclusion to choose wordpress (you) as the one i would like to create my website with.

  Nevertheless i get a little bit stuck in between. When i made my researc at the internet it said i can install randomly any plugins. But now i see that i do not even have a button with “Plugins”. Could you please help me and let me know what i do need more to create my website.

  Afterwards i was reading that i need a sql database and a hosting etc. is it possible to get all this with you? maybe with the premium or business account?

  Thank you for your support.

  Best regards
  Marian Engel

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

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  clickysteve · Staff · Feb 12, 2015 at 2:12 pm

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  Hey,

  I’m afraid that it isn’t possible to install plugins on WordPress.com sites, for security reasons. Plugins can only be installed on those running the self-hosted WordPress.org software. That’s the same for the references to SQL and hosting.

  The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is explained here:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  That said, WordPress.com has a pile of features that are inspired by popular plugins, so take a look at the main support site to see if what you want to do is available already:

  Home

  I hope this makes sense!