switching from wordpress.com to wordpress.org

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  shellysharon · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 2:32 pm

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  I have a blog on wordpress. com (canovacreative.com) and I want to make it multilingual. I have purchase WPML,and was looking for the plugins button on my site and couldn’t. Through your support I have just found out (I’m not a technical person …) that I can’t do it with myWP.com account (am I right?) But only with WP.org.
  Does it mean that if I want to make my site multilingual I need to switch to WP.org? and does it mean I need to start all over again or can I use the same site and content I was working on at WP.com. WOW this is really confusing for me :)

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  lizthefair · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  Through your support I have just found out (I’m not a technical person …) that I can’t do it with myWP.com account (am I right?) But only with WP.org.

  It’s true that you can’t add new plugins to your WordPress.com site, so in order to use a purchased plugin, you’d need to move to a self-hosted site. If you aren’t sure you want to move, some WordPress.com bloggers have found success offering their site in multiple languages using the process shared below.

  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/

  If that doesn’t work for you and you decide to move, you won’t have to start over. Here is the info you need on moving your site from WordPress.com to WordPress.org:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  Let me know if you have any question about that!