Plug-ins possible for free WordPress hosting?

  • All,
    I started a blog to be used by my classroom and chose WordPress hosting. I don’t have the time to teach and do the maintenance. I have downloaded a plug-in necessary for moderated posting and comments (“Moderate Authors” at https://www.skippy.net); what I read of the documentation calls for me to upload it to wpcontent “on the server” I have a diagram of the folder structure… where?. Sounds Ok, except that I can find nowhere that tells me the FTP syntax for logging in. I used do a lot of FTP in a previous life, is it wordpress.com, then my user name after a forward slash? Then I get prompted for making password?

    After an hour and a half of bouncing around in the docs I see very little and no FTP syntax.

    Is it possible that the WP-hosted blogs operate without any plug-ins? That can’t be…

    Will someone lift this mystery? Thanks! (in advance)

    Jonathan

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  • You can’t use plugins on blogs at wordpress.com, only any theme options and widgets.
    You will get more answers at the wordpress.com forums but I’m fairly sure what you need is possible though.

    https://wordpress.com/forums/

    Thread Starter jonathan7007

    (@jonathan7007)

    Podz,
    Thanks for the confirmation! Now I will search for a widget to do what I need.
    I sure hope there is one because in the current climate I can’t run my classroom blog without moderation of all content. Administrators are so scared of this that I barely got permission to do it.

    Jonathan

    You might want to look at Roles_and_Capabilities. I think if you make all the students “contributers”, they can submit content, but needs approval before posting.

    That is, if I understand your needs.

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