Why can't I add Plugins to my website?

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  newsanchortohomemaker · Member · Jan 11, 2014 at 5:05 pm

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  I’m fairly new to this and I want to download the floating social media plugin so viewers can quickly link to my social media pages. However, I don’t seem to have the appropriate wp-content/plugins pages. I checked and it seems you can’t download plugins if you have a FREE wordpress.com page instead of a self-hosted wordpress.org page. However, I paid for wordpress.com page so it certainly wasn’t free. Can you help me figure out how to add plugins to my blog and what I might need to do to get there? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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  eurello · Staff · Jan 12, 2014 at 9:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can add social media buttons to your site using a Text widget and some HTML, as described here:
  Add Social Media Buttons to Your Sidebar or Footer

  Your theme, Ever After, only has widgets in the footer. Most of our themes have a sidebar, though, so if you want to put them in the side, you might see if there’s a theme you like just as well that has a sidebar:
  http://themes.wordpress.com/

  Here are a couple of suggestions:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/adelle/ (This one has a built-in social media button feature so you wouldn’t have to use a widget)
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/confit/
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/misty-lake/

  As to plugins, the difference is in whether your site is hosted here at WordPress.com or whether it’s a WordPress site hosted with another provider. You can read more about the differences here:
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/com-or-org/

  The short answer is, you can’t install plugins on your WordPress.com site, but many of them aren’t necessary here as the features are already built in.

  Let me know if you have further questions!