Can't use my downloaded theme, i already have a hosting and domain.

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  naraback · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 8:15 pm

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  Hi! Got a problem with my wordpress.com. I want to upload a theme that i downloaded from a website, but in the Q&A section i found out that i can’t use it in a wp.com UNLESS this :”You can move your WordPress.com blog to a web host that allows editing and uploading of completely custom themes. You can find suitable hosts here.” The thing is that i already have a hosting service (dreamhost) and also mapped to my own domain i already had. But i don’t know which are the following steps for using my downloaded theme.
  Please help!
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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 1:48 pm

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  Hi there,

  So you want to stay with WordPress.com or move to WordPress.org? If you want to stay with us at WordPress.com, see if you can get a refund on the theme, and choose from any one of our themes here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/

  If you want to move to WordPress.org, please use this guide which will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  Please note that would mean the Domain Mapping upgrade to your WordPress.com site would be unnecessary and I can provide you a full refund for that. Please update your nameservers to Dreamhost.

  Also, as we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!