Questions about WordPress.com Premium

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    maasa1123 · Member ·

    Hello!
    I started wordpress using two weeks free trial on 7/23/2015, and since two weeks has passed I am on Premium since I select it to be my plan.

    So now, I can use all the things that Premium offers, right?

    I have a few questions regarding the service on this plan.

    1) Using Premium, can I have plugin of multi-lingual? I want to have English and Japanese

    2) Can I use the theme I found on WooTheme?
    WooTheme: http://www.woothemes.com

    3) do you offer plugin of having gallery on page? what I mean by this is that I want to put pictures with comment on the page called” gallery” or “sketch” so the page is full of pictures like museum.

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    1) Using Premium, can I have plugin of multi-lingual? I want to have English and Japanese

    No. Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality. You are confusing WordPress.ORG and WordPress.COM. For that type of functionality you’d need a self-hosted site running on a paid web hosting service.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

    Automatic translation is not available to WordPress.com blogs. We bloggers do not have FTP access to blogs hosted by WordPress.COM and we bloggers cannot install any plugins, we cannot use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any others, as they are JavaScript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

    However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
    Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog’s URL in the code with your own blog’s URL.

    If you are bilingual or multilingual and want to publish your free hosted WordPress.com in two or more languages but do not want to rely on machine translation that can be done see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/25/wordpress-com-multilingual-blogs/

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    timethief · Member ·

    2) Can I use the theme I found on WooTheme?

    No. username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums.

    Be sure to read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ Get hosting here http://wordpress.org/hosting

    You cannot install any custom theme or any third party theme into any wordpress.COM hosted blog and there is no upgrade that changes that. The “add new theme” option does not exist on any WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You are confusing WordPress.ORG software with WordPress.COM hosted blogs.

    There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

    The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes

    There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons and we cannot:
    upload any third party themes,
    create child themes,
    create our own themes,
    edit templates,
    create own own layouts,
    or use stylesheets from other themes.

    See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

    There is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.

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    timethief · Member ·

    3) do you offer plugin of having gallery on page? what I mean by this is that I want to put pictures with comment on the page called” gallery” or “sketch” so the page is full of pictures like museum.

    This is not a plugin situation. See here for creating galleries and slideshows on wordpress.COM hosted blogs https://en.support.wordpress.com/gallery/

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    timethief · Member ·

    So now, I can use all the things that Premium offers, right?

    You need to be very clear on what is offered and what is not possible.

    WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

    See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.

    Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/

    What you’ll get with this upgrade

    The included domain credit lets you add a custom domain to your blog (so ‘wordpress.com’ won’t be part of your blog’s address).
    Upload HD videos directly to your blog with VideoPress. No ads, no time limits, no watermarks — just your video.
    Choose custom fonts and colors with Custom Design, or go under the hood with the CSS editor.
    The No Ads upgrade makes sure ads will never show up on your blog.
    Extra 10GB of storage space will give you ample room for images, audio and video.

    Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/

    Note that each upgrade applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed.

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