Bought a theme: want to use it first on my trial site
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How do I transfer the theme to my trial site, please ? I need to put a lot of work in, as when I set it up on my normal site the footer went mad and the site was too wide for the screen.
So, logic dictates I check it out on my trial site so that I don’t have to go offline for hours.
But logged in to the trial site – mrtrials.wordpress.com – I can’t access the theme.
Will you help me please?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I am envisioning Support Staff, who have a heavy work burden as it is, being cursed with having to move premium themes back and forth from trial sites to other sites and what I see is chaos and a waste of time.
However, if you want Staff to make a judgment call you know how to type modlook into the sidebar, right?
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I see. A waste of time.
Strange that we do not share this view: I see the fact that I have paid for a theme that does not work, and which I wish to endeavour to make work without having to take my own site down for hours and hours.
I don’t consider this a waste of time at all. -
I have paid for a theme that does not work
Which theme is it please? Every time we buy a premium theme part of what we purchase is direct support form the theme’s designer in the Premium Themes Support Forum. Each premium theme has its own support forum there.
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Here’s the link to the Premium Themes Support Forums http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/
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Buying upgrades for one blog and attempting to use them on a different blog is a waste of time. If you want to test a premium theme, buy it for the site you want it for, play with it for a month, and if you don’t like it get your money back.
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Good grief: this is your idea of help, then ?
I have no wish to test it: I WANT TO USE IT. I wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.
However, when I attempted to set up my widgets, reduce the sizes of fonts and similarly beginners’ stuff, and then view it (I had gone off-line for this purpose, btw), the theme (Bloggy) was spread so widely across the page that the text ran off on both sides. The three footer widget (Bloggy provides for three footer widgets of I wouldn’t have purchased it) were totally distorted, as well.
I had no idea what the problem was; and, equally, had no intention of leaving my perfectly good site with its more than 1600 followers looking like a dog’s breakfast so that I could seek CSS help.
It occurred to me that I could set it up on my trial site and seek CSS help without having to take my site down.
Why this is forbidden is entirely beyond my comprehension.
I am tired already of being told that what I am attempting to do – which is ENTIRELY LOGICAL – is “a waste of time”. -
Upgrades are per blog, not per account. Don’t you know this by now?
Attempting to do things that are not possible is a waste of time. How much progress have you made towards your goal in the time you’ve been posting to this thread?
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All of our upgrades are indeed per site. With premium themes in particular, we pay the theme designers for each site that the theme is used on. If you wish to use a theme on two different sites, you will need to purchase it twice.
If you’re working on a site, you can purchase it and set your site to be private while you work on it, and make it public only after you are finished with it.
If you wish to test out a new theme, you may also purchase a theme (or any other upgrade other than domain registration) and receive a refund within 30 days, so you could use that option as well.
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I do not understand how what I WANT to do with this theme is not being grasped – I have stated it very clearly on several occasions.
I want to use the theme on my trial site ONLY TO TEST WHY IT DOES NOT WORK. Once that has been established, there will be no further need for it to be on my trial site. Obviously.
I would want then to use the WORKING version of it on my active site. -
That’s right, you have stated what you want very clearly and repeatedly. You have been told, equally clearly and repeatedly that this is not an option. What you have to do is come to terms with that.
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