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I'm in the process of setting up a WordPress.com site and importing my content over from my old WordPress hosted blog. One of the things I need to do is to make sure I have the same plugins installed on my site as I do on my old blog. But, when I go to the admin page for my WordPress.com-hosted blog, I can't see the plugins option on the sidebar on the left. I have all the other usual admin sidebar sections.

I tried going to the same url as the plugins link on my newly installed site would take me to, /wp-admin/plugins.php, but I just get an empty page.

How can I see what plugins I have installed?

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Plugins are not offered as a feature on WordPress.com-hosted blogs. See this comment. HTH.

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Thanks Philip, maybe what i installed wasn't a plugin then? I installed something: if i move over a codeblock (on my wordpress hosted blog) a question mark icon appears, and clicking on it shows "SyntaxHighlighter version 2.1.364 (October 15 2009) alexgorbatchev.com";. What's this if it's not a plugin? – Max Williams Mar 13 '11 at 10:37
@Max: That functionality is included with WordPress.com blogs, I don't think you have to enable it. As Philip pointed out, you can't install plugins on WordPress.com blogs. – Jan Fabry May 11 '11 at 15:17
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If You have a mysqldump with database, You can check it in option table (usually wp_options):

SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins';

Result is a serialized table of active plugins.

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