Say it ain’t so!
I seem to remember a time where you could download, I don’t know what they were called, enhancements to your WordPress blog kind of like how they do at Blogger. I think there they call them gadgets—don’t quote me, I’ve never really felt any kinship toward their platform. Back on track, I remember one I particularly liked that enhanced the options you had for writing a post. It was like 3 lines deep with a bunch of buttons for all sorts of things. And similar to how apps update on a smart phone, they had updates also.
Well I have looked EVERYWHERE (I assume–key word: assume) and I cannot find them. Which leads me to assume that WordPress has indeed turned into penny pinchers and that maybe these have been eliminated to their entirety or perhaps are only available in the upgrades which, indeed, cost some change.
I kind of feel like someone stole my candy.
Hmm.. I’m not 100% sure what you’re looking for, but when you’re in the visual editor writing a post, you can open a bunch of additional formatting options by clicking the “kitchen sink” icon: https://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/
I’m also wondering if you’re thinking about widgets, which you can get to by going to Appearance –> Widgets. There are all kinds of nifty things you can add to your sidebar to customize your site.
No, it’s not the widgets. It was extra features made mostly by other developers and you could choose to download what you wanted/needed. I had like 5 or 6 in my abandoned WordPress blog from eons ago. I looked at the paid stuff and didn’t find anything like that there either so I’m thinking they were done away with. I have a feeling they used to be in the dashboard under tools. Thanks for directing me to the “kitchen sink”. The guy who developed the feature that I liked even had a YouTube video on how to get the most out of it, but I doubt I’d be able to find it now.
Ah, plugins. Plugins can only be used on self-hosted blogs, not on WordPress.com – since we’re all sharing the WordPress.com platform, it’s too much of a security risk to allow people to upload plugins to their sites.
Ah, thank you for validating that I’m not crazy! Hopefully I haven’t offended WordPress too badly.
No worries! It takes a lot more than that