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  deluxetalent · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  Hi all,

  So I was searching for solutions to make it possible to display a widget in a post or on a specific page instead of on a footer or sidebar on my site (RSS reader widget). I was unable to find anything like this in the available widgets menu within the WordPress dashboard but I did a Google search for this and stumbled across a widget called “amr Shortcode Any Widget” that seems like it would fit the bill. I downloaded it from here- here but now I’m unsure as to how to go about installing it.

  I did some research, and it looks like there used to be a way to manually upload widgets to your site but this feature seems like it’s no longer available. Now I have a .zip of this widget downloaded, but I have no idea how to install it.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks,

  Mike

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:52 pm

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  make it possible to display a widget in a post or on a specific page

  That’s not possible on any wordpress.COM blog. Here widgets can be displayed only in sidebars and/or in footer areas for widgets.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:54 pm

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  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/

  We provide support here only for WordPress.COM hosted blogs.We do not provide support for WordPress.ORG software installs.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ Get hosting here http://wordpress.ORG/hosting/

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  deluxetalent · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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  So if it’s a .com it can’t be done?

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  deluxetalent · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:56 pm

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  Gotcha, thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 31, 2015 at 6:57 pm

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  For RSS widgets in sidebars and/or footers on WordPress.COM hosted blog see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/

  Please read the types of blogs that are not allowed:

  Automated blogs: Blogs that are generated by computers, including randomly generated blogs, blogs that re-publish press releases, marketing material, search engine results, link dumps or any other mass-produced content. https://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

  Bottom line: We WordPress.COM bloggers are not provided with the ability to “splog” ie. there are no tools provided that we can use to fill posts or pages with content from RSS Feeds.

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  bharathbode · Member · Aug 17, 2015 at 6:12 pm

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  if your blog is selfhosted use shortcode plugin to do that

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  timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  @bharathbode
  What I posted is correct and you have been reported to Staff as you have established a pattern of reactivating older threads and posting parroted information into them them, or worse still, posting wrong answers.

  Please stop reactivating threads that have already been answered.

  Every time you do that those subscribed to the thread get a useless email containing your parroted remarks that are not required in the first place.