Title: WordPress.com support
Last modified: December 1, 2025

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# WordPress.com support

 *  Resolved [Evilain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilain/)
 * (@evilain)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-support-3/)
 * Hi,
 * Does this plugin work on WordPress.com?

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 *  Plugin Support [Quinnie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinniewpfolio/)
 * (@quinniewpfolio)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-support-3/#post-18737601)
 * Hi [@evilain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilain/),
 * Thank you for reaching out to us!
 * Unfortunately, WordPress.com doesn’t allow editing or customizing the `.htaccess`
   file, so our PDA Free plugin is not fully compatible with WordPress.com environments.
 * To use our plugin without limitations, you would need to switch to a self-hosted
   WordPress.org setup.
 * Alternatively, our [PDA Gold plugin (paid version)](https://preventdirectaccess.com/pricing/)
   offers a **“Keep Raw URL”** option that _may_ work on WordPress.com. However,
   it requires adding custom code to block access to the `_pda` folder, and this
   workaround still comes with [certain limitations](https://preventdirectaccess.com/docs/pda-rewrite-rules/).
 * Best regards,

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Quinnie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinniewpfolio/)
 * Last activity: [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-support-3/#post-18737601)
 * Status: resolved