Plugins not showing up on dashboard

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  jk344 · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 8:31 am

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  I am looking to add plugins to my blog but there is no where in my dashboard that allows me to even find the plugin section. I’m aware that the issue lies with wordpress.ORG, not wordpress.COM.

  I have watched countless tutorials and every one of them has a plugin section under the user section in the dashboard. Mine does not and I don’t know what to do. The tutorials also sometimes have a ‘Network Admin’ section on the dashboard, but I also do not see that on my wordpress

  I also tried adding “define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );” to the wp-config.php file, but that didn’t help. Also, when I go to [myname].wordpress.com/wp-admin/network/plugins.php I get the error msg “the requested page does not exist”

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2014 at 7:28 pm

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  While plugins are common on self hosted WordPress sites, due to security concerns, they are not available on WordPress.com. There is more info regarding WordPress.com and plugins here:

  Plugins

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 7:48 pm

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  The videos you are watching will rot you mind – they are for WordPress.ORG installs not your site here at WordPress.COM

  For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  kheenand · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 8:08 pm

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  Thank you for his. I too was going around in circles looking for the plug ins

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  timethief · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 8:14 pm

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  Getting help in the forums https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-faq-getting-started-in-the-forums?replies=1

  All support docs are at this link http://support.wordpress.com
  type plugins into the searchbox an click http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=plugins
  results http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  Or do a tag search here in the forums https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/no-plugins

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  jk344 · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 11:29 am

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  yes, I know the problem is with wordpress.ORG, not wordpress.COM. But I went to the wordpress.ORG forums and asked for help but got no replies

  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-setup-not-showing-up-so-i-cant-create-plugin?replies=3#post-5391743

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 11:40 am

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  Well, deal with that. WP.org forums are less responsive in part because there is a huge market in paid WP.org consultancy. I’ll answer your questions there for $200 an hour myself.

  If you don’t get any answers there, there’s no point coming back here except to waste our time and your time. It’s a different version of the software entirely.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 29, 2014 at 10:00 pm

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  Sorry to hear you didn’t get any replies on WordPress.org. But the fact remains that WordPress.com staff cannot assist with self-hosted WordPress.org sites.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 4:50 pm

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  One of the seven reasons I moved back from self-hosting was the lack of support at WordPress.ORG. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/10/30/7-reasons-why-i-like-wordpress-com-hosting/