Title: Plugins @ wordpress.COM versus Plugins @ wordpress.ORG
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugins @ wordpress.COM versus Plugins @ wordpress.ORG

 *  [heirat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heirat/)
 * (@heirat)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wordpresscom-versus-plugins-wordpressorg/)
 * Greetings everyone. Yesterday I setup my first standalone blog site at dreamhost.
   com. I haven’t uploaded any html code to it yet. I signed up with wordpress.COM
   and later learned plugins (in this case a contact me plugin) will not work with
   wordpress.COM, and I’ll need to use wordpress.ORG to use plugins. I’ve tried 
   to download and install the software from wordpress.ORG to no avail. Can anyone
   help since I’m lost. Thanks!

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 *  [peteuniverse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteuniverse/)
 * (@peteuniverse)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wordpresscom-versus-plugins-wordpressorg/#post-2070658)
 * I’m not a huge expert what so ever but have gone through the same process weeks
   ago…
    Basically what you need to do after installing the latest version of WordPress
   is: 1. go to your WP.com Dashboard 2. Under the ‘tools’ menu choose ‘Export’ 
   3. save the file 4. log in to your WP.org dashboard and under ‘tools’ this time
   choose ‘Import’
 * that’s it.
 * hope i helped…
 * Pete

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