Adding 3rd party themes…
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Just a suggestion to improve the WordPress.com experience. Let people install thirty party themes. I know what you will say, “if you want to do that… install WordPress.org self hosted software”. I get that. The reason why I come to WordPress.com is because of the benefits of hosting on the WordPress.com server vs. my own. Obviously, the con is a lack of third party themes and assuming you find an alternative theme, it will set you back $80 which is a lot for a theme. OK, I bring this up because another self hosted blog called Blogspot has plenty of 3rd party themes available at ThemeForest for $20. Both are self hosted. What makes blogpot different? Curious. This is not really requesting a custom theme, as much as allowing third parties to create custom templates which is really all that TF is doing.
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Blogger / Blogspot allows the user to edit the template, but Blogger has fewer features than WordPress.
Blogger not a self-hosted platform, same as WordPress.com
Lot of third party theme in the themes directory.
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Third-party themes contain code which is not necessarily secure. In fact, in my consulting business the #1 way my clients are hacked is by installing insecure themes. Because of the shared backbone of the Wp.com blogging platform, all people using a given theme share the greatest risk deemed acceptable by the stupidest person using that theme. That’s too big a risk to allow plugins and external themes, and it would be too expensive to vet them one by one. The VIP team charges $6000 to vet a single plugin for their clients here.
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