Unable to install bbPress

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  vmsar · Member · Jan 17, 2014 at 5:34 am

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  No Plug-in directory or listing in my Dashboard to be able to install bbPress. I have all the instructions I could find, BUT at a loss here.
  Unless this is a Paid feature
  Randy
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  Wide Glide

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

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  vmsar · Member · Jan 17, 2014 at 5:36 am

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  Site needing help is NOT vmsar, New site/Private with “Test” post only

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  1coyote · Member · Jan 27, 2014 at 8:57 pm

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  Unless this is a Paid feature.

  Yes, it is.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 27, 2014 at 9:02 pm

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  re: plugins
  WordPress.com is a multiuser blogging platform. Our blogs are not free standing. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins.

  There is no upgrade you can purchase that will provide FTP access and the ability to install plugins, upload themes, and/or edit templates and themes in a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  To use plugins you must hire a web host and then set up your own WordPress.org install.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 27, 2014 at 9:03 pm

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  @vmsar
  At present there are no chatboxes or forums I am aware of that can be embedded into free hosted WordPress.com blogs. There is no FTP access and we cannot install plugins.

  However, you have three free workaround forum options: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/

  One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
  a custom link to the forum in it.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Menus