Updates?

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  aac1777 · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 6:23 am

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  Thanks in advance for reviewing my inquiry. How do I update my blog and my plugins? I’m not finding any information on how to do this and yet I think it is supposed to be done regularly?!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 21, 2014 at 5:07 am

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  If you are reading instructions that reference updating WordPress software and plugins, you are looking at instructions that are for self-hosted WordPress sites using the software available form WordPress.org. This page will explain the basic differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  WordPress.com updates all software automatically and does not require you to do anything on your part to stay updated. In addition, On WordPress.com, we include the most popular plugin functionality within our sites automatically. As a result, WordPress.com users won’t find a Plugins tab in the Dashboard:

  Plugins

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.