Why can't we add our own plugins without having to upgrade?

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  gibsongulf · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 2:44 pm

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  I enjoy using WordPress in the past. Being able to add your own plugins made your blog easier to navigate,it made your blogging automated and so on! It is hard for me to understand, why I can’t add a plugin’s I have purchased to make my life easier, without having to pay even more money to use them !? Can anyone give me a suggestion or am I just missing something? Please help me with this, I have 3 sites http://electronicave.wordpress.com savingsummit.wordpress.com and gibsongulf.wordpress.com and unable to use on any!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 3:09 pm

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  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes. There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 3:11 pm

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  I see “sitemap” in the tags in the sidebar. To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

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  gibsongulf · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm

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  Timethief,
  thank you so much for your quick response! I checked out your site.
  Loved it, and what a cool name! Just what little bit of chatting with you, I’m sure you are just as cool! I kinda feel, like I should have know all of that. But, thank you for setting me straight. BTW, I will be Following your blog!
  Hope you have a wonderful Easter!