So I can’t download plug-ins if my blog is hosted by wordpress.com?

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  leftonred · Member · Mar 29, 2007 at 4:57 am

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  i don’t have plug in tab on my dashboard.

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  nosysnoop · Member · Mar 29, 2007 at 8:19 am

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  Since you’ve only been here for three days and your username on this forum isn’t clickable, do you host your own site? Because if you host your own site, then you should ask at the WordPress.org forum:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  Our free blogs here at WordPress.com run under a different software.

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 29, 2007 at 8:27 am

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  You are correct. Here’s the relevant FAQ entry:

  Where is my plugins tab?

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  drmike · Member · Mar 29, 2007 at 7:04 pm

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  Poster is here at wp.com. We don’t have access to adding in our own plugins here as we don’t have ftp access as it’s a security risk.

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  elfercho · Member · Jul 28, 2007 at 11:16 pm

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  does anyone know is this will be available any time soon??

  thx ;)

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  abbydonkrafts · Member · Jul 28, 2007 at 11:25 pm

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  It’s been covered many times. It will not be implemented ever. It’s just too complicated under the multi-user environment that WordPress.com runs on and is a security risk to other users among other things.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 10:40 pm

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  Technically speaking, you can download any plugins you like. You just can’t install them on your WordPress.com blog, ever.