Where are the plug-ins?
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Hello everyone.
This is the first WordPress blog that I have ever created (so please have patience with me) & I have done so using tips from a book. In the book it had mentioned adding widgets & plug-ins (both new terms to me ;)) to the blog. The widgets were indeed under the Appearance menu, as the book stated. But it had also stated that the plug-ins would have a stand-alone menu & I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Am I missing something?
I’d appreciate any help I can get with this because the book mentions some interesting plug-ins that I’d like to employ & I am absolutely confused right now on where to find them. Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Rebecca LaurasiaThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We do not have plugins on WordPress.com. Instead, we try to incorporate much of the functionality our users want to use, like social media sharing options, within our default options.
What kind of functionality are you looking for? If you let me know, I can let you know if it’s possible here.
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You might also be interested in our support documentation:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/and our online tutorial:
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Hi Jackie.
Thanks for the reply. I guess the book that I’m using is a little outdated then. Perhaps some of this stuff has been incorporated in a different way now. LOL! It mentions that the most important plug-ins to add are “All In One SEO”, “Google XML Sitemaps”, “Ultimate Google Analytics”, WP-DMManager”, “Disqus”, & “WP-Cache”.
In any case, it’s probably best for me to look more closely through the links that you offered to me. ;) Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Laurasia -
Site maps are built in – no need to do anything
A stock WordPress.COM blog will blow the All in on SEO into the weeds as long as you use good blogging practices – if you don’t use good practices, nothing will help you
WP Cache – useless here – the server farms are so massive here and there is an entire staff section devoted to making sure your blog will take 1,000,000 page views in a day if you are that popular
Built in Stats and some other sources you can use for stats (Quantcast is built in and does a lot – might need to have the reports turned on) – but no GA –
I have been told that Discuss sucks by some that took it off their .ORG blogs – but no experience with it so don’t know if they had it configured correctly or what
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Hi Auxclass.
Well it appears that most, if not all, of this stuff is already added into the system without me needing to do anything. I just need to find it all. LOL! Thanks for your reply. :)
Sincerely,
Rebecca Laurasia -
You be welcome
They work real hard here at making this a one stop just start blogging don’t worry about the back office junk – just start a blog & go
See the links here on SEO best practices: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-for-wordpresscom?replies=11#post-1581889
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@rebeccalaurasia1413 it looks like auxclass helped you with the functionality issues, but I wanted to clarify something else for you. There are two ‘flavors’ of WordPress: the free software you can download at WordPress.org and use on your own hosting, and the hosted version of WordPress at WordPress.com.
You can review the differences here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/Your book was likely only referencing the .org version, which does allow plugins.
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Hello Auxclass & Jackie.
Thank you so much for the information & links. I will definitely be looking through more of this stuff now. And, now that you say it Jackie, the author likely was referring to the .org versions as she had mentioned earlier in the book that there were two versions of WordPress available. It seems that, in her chapter suggesting which plug-ins to use on a blog, she had simply failed to mention that she was specifically referring to the .org version of a blog. ;)
Sincerely,
Rebecca Laurasia -
You’re welcome.
Since it sounds like things are resolved, I’m going to close this thread, but if you have new questions about using WordPress.com, please feel free to post a new thread at any time.
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