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I just realized I’m at wordpress.com. not .org — does that matter?
I can’t believe sticking a little widget on is so darn impossible! arrgh!
So by “self-hosted” do you mean one that I pay to have my own domain imposed on it, as I did with patmaginnis.com?
I have paid extra to map this URL to the wordpress (to replace patmaginnis.wordpress.com) but even on that one, I don’t see a Plug-ins menu. Any more info before I just give it up?
Thanks again for your exquisite patience!
Hi, and thanks for your patience! I hate confusing terminology: I thought that because we’d mapped the previous domain, “admin panel”meant the cPanel of the host!
But when I go here in the Dashboard, I see no Plugins menu in the sidebar. There
s home, store, posts, media, links, pages, comments, feedback, polls, ratings, appearance, users, tools and settings, but I couldn’t find any plugins section.However, online search tells me WordPress doesn’t work with plugins, and calls the SpeakUp petition widget I want a widget, not a plugin. That just confuses me further, as I can’t seem to get it up anywhere, since I can’t find the Plugins menu link.
Sorry for the denseness, and thanks for your efforts anyway! I appreciate it.
Hi Kreg, Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I don’t know where my site’s WordPress admin panel is. I thought I had found it through the dashboard but I guess that didn’t work because somehow I ended up in the WordPress forum, so I thought I had to create a separate account there, becauase my regular password didn’t work. I did that, stumbled to a “Plugins” section, found the SpeakUp plugin, downloaded it (but I’d already done that and tried to install it and could’t).
There it sits on my desktop, and I have no idea what to do with it. I’ve read seven or eight pages online with the same question but since I don’t know where the admin panel is, I’m stumped.
I did have the patmaginnis.com/wordpress part deleted by having the original site owner map the outside domain patmaginnis.com to the WordPress site, but I have no idea where the cpanel is or what I should look for when and if I do happen upon it.Thanks anyway. Ironically, I’m creating this site for Pat and am a tech editor for software, and I still can’t figure this out! DOH!
Can’t figure out how to install this–no “install now” button appeared and I am lame about putting code in; have no idea where the wp/directory file is.
Any advice? I have the folder on the desktop; just don’t know how to find it. joinned the forum ecdause one online source said you had to get it thru “plugins’ though it’s called a widget but you couldn’t find it under widgets, so it was under plugins, but it just downloaded the folder I’d already downloaded direct from SpeakUp Petitions, and no automatic installer kicked in.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!