Plugins for premium users

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  mattypaul · Member · Oct 20, 2013 at 4:35 pm

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  For users like me, who pay £99 annually for the premium WordPress experience, there really should be the option to add plugins.

  For starters, it really wasn’t clear to me that when I went premium I wouldn’t get the added functionality.

  Secondly, you would have thought that the high yearly charge would cover more than just an url without ‘wordpress’ in it.

  Thirdly, for the vast majority of users, going to a completely self-hosted environment is just not a viable option. I couldn’t code to save my life. I like the use of my purchased theme as well thank you very much.

  Here I was, paying a high yearly charge, thinking that I would be able to do something so basic.

  At least make the option of installing plugins an additional add-on to the already high ‘premium’ cost.

  All I wanted to do was add the Disqus commenting system to replace the comparatively insufficient WordPress commenting system.

  N.B. my actual blog url is http://mattthenokiaguy.com/
  For some reason the drop down menu didn’t have it.

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

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  mattypaul · Member · Oct 20, 2013 at 4:36 pm

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  Haha, and then it goes and does add my actual blog url.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 21, 2013 at 4:11 am

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  First off, I would encourage you to not be intimidated by the idea of setting up a self-hosted site. It really isn’t all that difficult and there is a great support community at WordPress.org.

  However, I also understand liking WordPress.com. Thus, I would encourage you to make a post encouraging a “plugins” option on our ideas/suggestions area of the WordPress.com support forums.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas

  The forums are monitored and it does make a difference to post there.

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

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  mattypaul · Member · Oct 24, 2013 at 3:48 pm

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  Thank you. I have added the idea to the forum.

  If I were to go self-hosted then I would definitely need to pay for the migration service. That is another additional cost that I simply am not willing to pay for. I already pay £99 annually, in addition to the money for my premium theme.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 24, 2013 at 11:39 pm

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  I understand completely.