Title: Using widgets from WordPress.com as plugins in WordPress.org
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using widgets from WordPress.com as plugins in WordPress.org

 *  [Alexzandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexzandra/)
 * (@alexzandra)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/)
 * I really liked the easy subscription widget and some of the others from wordpress.
   com and am sick of all the other jumk required for subscription plugins on wordpress.
   org.
 * Is that widget available as a plugin for wordpress.org? If so, how do I find 
   it?
 * And one that’s a little off topic but kind of relates: if I find the website 
   and am able to download plugin files, where do I save them on my computer? I’ve
   always just gone through the plugin menus on the wordpress.org dashboard.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/#post-1799441)
 * > Is that widget available as a plugin for wordpress.org? If so, how do I find
   > it?
 * Well, it’s not that exactly, but this is about as close as they come: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/)
 * > if I find the website and am able to download plugin files, where do I save
   > them on my computer? I’ve always just gone through the plugin menus on the 
   > wordpress.org dashboard.
 * You can find Subscribe2 by searching for it at Plugins/Add New in your Dashboard.
   Alternatively, you can follow this guide to install it manually: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins)
 *  Thread Starter [Alexzandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexzandra/)
 * (@alexzandra)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/#post-1799462)
 * Thank you! This was very helpful!
 * Any idea on how to make the subscribe box show up on my page? 🙂
 * Sorry…kinda new at this.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/#post-1799475)
 * I think it adds a widget, which you can add to your sidebar at Appearance/Widgets
   in your Dashboard, similar to the way WordPress.com does it.
 *  Thread Starter [Alexzandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexzandra/)
 * (@alexzandra)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/#post-1799539)
 * I’ve looked in my widgets area and it’s not there. 🙁
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-from-wordpresscom-as-plugins-in-wordpressorg/#post-1799615)
 * Did you activate the Subscribe2 plugin? It may be a setting that you need to 
   activate within the plugin?

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