Adding rich pin code to blog post

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  grinnpidgeon · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  I’m quite happy with my theme and the terrific recipe shortcode.

  I post my recipe posts on Pinterest after publishing and am curious about whether we might someday be able to add their “rich pin” code to posts to make the pins more interesting to Pinterest readers and to get more blog traffic from them.

  They ask that the code go between “head” tags, but I don’t see that level of code in the text view of my posts. Am I missing something? Here are their instructions for adding their code. I know about and appreciate WordPress.com wariness about adding code, but wonder if this particular one might be possible someday.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:50 pm

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  We WordPress.COM hosted bloggers are unable to access metadata on WordPress.COM blogs and insert anything at all into the <header>. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ Our WordPress.com hosted blogs, unlike WordPress.ORG installs which are each free standing, share a common architecture. Hence, what you ask for can only be done on a WordPress.ORG install. Read the differences here please http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Added information:
  The follow the Pinterest Site Verification instructions provided in the support docs which are all at http://support.wordpress.com
  Go to http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#pinterest-site-verification

  Note that The pin it button is JavaScript and cannot be used on WordPress.COM hosted blogs.

  Go to Dashboard > Sharing please and use this guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#customize-your-services to enable a sharing icon so it will display under each post.

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/embed-from-pinterest/

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  grinnpidgeon · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 6:43 pm

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  Okay, thanks. I figured it was something like that, but I still want to stay on the .com and appreciate the hosting. I’ll just have to get traffic the old fashioned way.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/

  Ebook: Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog

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