WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Changing Wordpress.com to .org = ability to add plugins? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Changing Wordpress.com to .org = ability to add plugins? en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:39:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 postpunkmonk on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-561736 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:33:16 +0000 postpunkmonk 561736@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, that worked out fine. Thanks for the tip!

]]> raincoaster on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-561443 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:53:33 +0000 raincoaster 561443@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Easy: some people subscribe to their own RSS feed, but you can also just go to your Dashboard and under Tools hit Export.

]]> auxclass on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-561441 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:53:10 +0000 auxclass 561441@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can Export your blog and save the file on your PC - I don't think that saves the pictures but it does capture all the text and has links to the pictures.

]]> postpunkmonk on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-561440 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:46:22 +0000 postpunkmonk 561440@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm currently trying to find out how to back up my blog and I'm thus far, coming up empty handed. Can some one point me in the right direction? I would think that I could download an XML file easily enough...

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-560245 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:34:50 +0000 thesacredpath 560245@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you are lucky and all goes well, then self-hosting is not that hard. When things go wrong though you had better know what you are doing, or hire someone who does.

I recently cleaned up and rebuilt a boatload of sites that had been hacked and suspended by their web hosts. The majority had never done a backup - didn't even know how. Several ended up losing all of their data because their databases had been compromised. So far this week I have recovered two blogs where plugins killed the blog.

It happens. You always have to think of it as "when" not "if."

]]> raincoaster on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-560242 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:33:11 +0000 raincoaster 560242@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Everyone says that until they get hacked.

]]> furious373 on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-560233 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:17:59 +0000 furious373 560233@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's not nearly as hard or as scary as thesacredpath is trying to make it sound. Google is your friend, and Dreamhost is the best, they'll install and update your installation of WordPress for you.

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-555297 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:47:35 +0000 thesacredpath 555297@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Dropdown menus are a part of wordpress.COM as long as you use a theme that has top navigation. They added this capability months ago.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

As to the plugins and domain question, no, the domain/domain mapping upgrade just puts your own custom domain name on your blog here. You still have the same restrictions as you did before.

You would have to buy a domain name, hire a web host such as godaddy or bluehost, etc., install and configure the wordpress.ORG software at that web host, and then you could use plugins on that self-hosted blog. Figure a total average monthly cost of $10 to $25 depending on bandwidth and storage requirements.

You will be responsible for all installations and all upgrades, all backups, all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure it out and fix it. If you install a plugin or a theme that kills your blog, you have to know how to go into the backend of things and manually remove it (which sometimes requires that you edit the MySQL database.

]]> inretrospect21 on "Changing WordPress.com to .org = ability to add plugins?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-wordpresscom-to-org-ability-to-add-plugins#post-555269 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:07:19 +0000 inretrospect21 555269@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi everyone,

I'm stuck on a few things. Number one: I've currently got a wordpress.com blog and I know I'm not allowed to add plugins. I also noticed that there's an upgrade to have you own domain name. Would that change the .com to .org and if it does, would I be able to install this plugin that I'm interested in? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropdown-menu-widget/

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