Can I add a free heme on WP.com NOT listed on theme gallery?

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  jennikeast · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 8:36 pm

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  Okay, FINALLY…I found a very cool theme that I would LOVE to use as it feature a lot of thumbnails from most recent posts (10 visible one one page) which as a writer is absolutely ideal as my prospective clients can get a VISUAL quick overview of my projects/samples.

  Here is the theme. http://sponsoredwp.info/brightness/

  However what I don’t know (because I’m still new at this WP thing) is if I can use this theme on my free WP.com blog. Eventually I plan on transferring over to WordPress.org but not now.

  If you tell me I can’t use this wonderful theme then the next best thing (which is not all that great but the only one that I can see on WP themes that has HIGHLIGHTS (snippets) of recent post. Onlly 3 or 4 on a page but better than what I’m using now. It’s called STRUCTURE.

  Any help you can give would be most appreciated!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 9:12 pm

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  No you cannot. There is no FTP access to free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM and we cannot upload themes or plugfins or anything else into them.

  Please read the sticky post at the head of this forum > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

  Or read this one placed on the front page of trghe support documentation > WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  P.S. No wordpress.COM free hosted blogs have “www” in their URLs. The correct URL for your blog is >

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 9:15 pm

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  http://jennikeast.wordpress.com

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  @jennikeast: Be very careful when you type your URL. worpress.com instead of wordpress.com takes you to a NSFW (not safe for work) website!

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  jennikeast · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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  Yikes! I really apologize…I didn’t realize I had one that with my own WP URL.

  Appreciate the heads up.

  Thanks for your help.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 11:13 pm

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  @jenni
  We Volunteers are answering your threads but you aren’t retruning to them. Please click the “member” link under your username so you can locate all the threads you posted and answers you got on them. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/jennikeast

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  jennikeast · Member · Jan 17, 2011 at 3:57 am

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  I don’t know what you mean. I go to Forum, and where it says, “Welcome Jenni Keast, I click on Jenni Keast and voila!….it takes me to all my posts. This is the fastest way to get here.

  How is that not returning to my threads? Please explain!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 17, 2011 at 4:52 am

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  Yay! I can see you have been catching up now because you have linked your username to your blog like I described here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-font-size-and-colors-of-template-headers?replies=4#post-546835

  I clicked into your blog and I see you have switched to the Structure theme. It’s aunique theme with a couple of interesting features that can be used as described very well in this post by another forum Volunteer. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/introduction-to-structure/

  Hope this helps. :)