Can I purchase a wordpress.com theme and host it somewhere else?

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  jwkitz · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:01 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m considering hosting a wordpress site with the wordpress recommended hosting provider godaddy.com using this “http://minimumdemo.wordpress.com/” theme, but based on the information on wordpress.com I get the impression that this particular theme can only be hosted at wordpress.com, instead of downloading the theme after purchasing it and running the theme of my choice at a hosting company of my choice, while still having access to upgrades of the theme.

  Can I purchase the “http://minimumdemo.wordpress.com/” theme and run it at Godaddy, without having to first set it up, run it empty and then move the empty site for a fee to Godaddy?

  Regards, Jk.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 4:49 pm

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  1) Godaddy is NOT a recommended provider: http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2) all themes are modified to run on WordPress.COM and you would need to modify the theme to make it run on a WordPress.ORG installed blog

  WordPress.ORG has something like 1,500 free themes in their library you can use

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  jwkitz · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm

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  Thanks, but…

  1) http://get.wp.com/hosting/ states they are

  2) http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/ suggest I can host elsewhere.

  The questions remains can I take a theme that I bought along? And do I need to it setup on wordpress.com first, run it empty and then move it?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 5:12 pm

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  1) suite yourself not my blog – look in the WordPress.ORG forum – i would not use them

  the guided transfer gets you a theme that is close to what you have here but not the same theme –

  Premium themes don’t transfer at all

  from your link above – the fine print that you skipped

  I purchased a premium theme at WordPress.com. Will it be transferred?
  Premium themes purchased at WordPress.com are only valid here at WordPress.com.

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  jwkitz · Member · Sep 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm

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  Oops, you are right I missed the (not so) fine print. Your comments are much appreciated. Haven’t found a template on wordpress.org that looks as cool and has the same features though.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 2, 2013 at 2:58 am

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  JetPack Plug-in adds back in many of the Widgets used here – it is written by WordPress.COM

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  jwkitz · Member · Sep 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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  Thanks again for the tip. Now all I’ve got to do is find a template that meets my requirements as much as the one mentioned earlier in this thread.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 2, 2013 at 2:43 pm

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  Good luck