plugins, where?

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  yossi86 · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 1:53 pm

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  why cant i install plugins? I’ve looked throughout my dashboard and i cant find anywhere where i can install plugins!!
  Blog url: http://jewishtorrents.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:13 pm

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  WordPress.com is a hosted blog service. You do not have to download software, pay for hosting or manage a web server. WordPress.com does not permit FTP access, uploading themes or plugins. WordPress.org is free software. You can install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ If these realities are deal breakers for you then your can hire a web host and set up your own self hosted WordPress.org install from http://wordpress.org/

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:21 pm

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  You can install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database.

  Should read

  You can’t install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database.

  Morning TT – fixed a typo

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:23 pm

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  WordPress.org is free software. You can install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database. …

  ~~auxclass
  good morning :)

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:41 pm

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  Oh well – sorry about that – missed the .ORG

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  yossi86 · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 4:29 pm

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  First. Thank you! First time posting in a forum ever, and I didn’t expect any answers at all. So thank you! So I’m going to assume that the plug ins that are available for word press sites, are only available if you have a website, not a blog. Is that correct? And is there a way I can either pay and enable plugins somehow, or I’d need to buy a actual site for that.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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  Hello again,
  Plugins are only available to those who hire web hosts and install free WordPress.org software on their own self hosted sites. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase from WordPress.com to gain that access and install plugins. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 10:16 pm

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  Why don’t you tell us what you actually want to get accomplished, and we can tell you how to do it in your existing blog? And please don’t say “install plugins.” Plugins do things. What things do you want to do? Most of them are possible at Wp.com if you know how.

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  poutpretty · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 10:20 pm

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  I would like to install CommentLuv to my wordpress.com blog. How do I do that??

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 10:25 pm

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  That cannot be done, alas. It’s a frequent request though.

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  yossi86 · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 3:33 am

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  So I’m trying to make mine into a torrent site with that plugin to share old Jewish music with friends, that ISN’T copywrite and I guess you can’t install that plug in on the free WordPress blog.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 3:39 am

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  You can upload your audio files to one of the file sharing sites and then use the audio player here so that people can listen to them, and also include a download link to where you have the files uploaded. You can do this at places like fileden.com and a number of others.

  Audio player: http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 4:39 am

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  You can also get the space upgrade and upload the mp3’s here and both post the download link and post it in the audio player. Torrents, however, can’t be hosted here even with upgrades as far as I know.