Plugins menu item missing

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  softwarechaos · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 10:32 am

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  hi,

  I’d like to activate some plugins but in my administration interface there isn’t such a item “Plugins”. There are just items like “Appearance”, “Posts”, “Media”, “Links” … but not “Plugins”. What shall I do to enable it??

  thank you in advance

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 1:18 am

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  There is no FTP access to WordPress.com free hosted blogs. We bloggers cannot install any plugins. Those are for WordPress.ORG installs which run on different software.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  There is no upgrade that you can purchase from WordPress.com that provides FTP access , the ability to install plugins, third party themes and software into free hosted WordPress.com blogs. If your require plugins you must hire a web host and set up your own WordPress.org install. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  softwarechaos · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 1:29 pm

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  I’ve expected this answer but I thought that there must be a way to activate some “most popular” plugins, for example for formatting the source code. Apparently, it’s not possible.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 6:53 pm

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  See here > posting source code > http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  There are a ton of extra Widgets and some Short Codes so that you don’t need to add Plug-in’s

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 7:02 pm

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  What many bloggers don’t realize is that the super plugin called JetPack was created to incorporate what we have at WordPress.com and make it available to WordPress.ORG bloggers, thereby creating parity.

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  softwarechaos · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 8:46 am

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  thank you for your answers! I’ll use http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ for now.

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  justinjean3 · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 9:30 pm

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  this’s really so bad
  it was okay
  I will left worldpress
  blogger is 100 better
  why we still here let’s go !!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 9:35 pm

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  @justinjean3
  Best wishes to you for happy blogging.