Changing Theme

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  benignantwriter · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 4:16 pm

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  I didn’t see any topic on this, so I decided to make one.

  I found a theme I like from wordpresstemplates.com, and downloaded it. It is a zip file. But I am unable to install it. With Tumblr, all I have to do to install a theme from a different source is click on the picture and it redirects to the page it is on in Tumblr, and I click install. But it seems like WordPress is very difficult on this. Can anyone help? I use an Android, by the way.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 12, 2013 at 4:44 pm

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  We cannot use themes downloaded from the internet, not even if they indicate that they are WordPress themes. Did you know that there are distinctly separate kinds of WordPress? If you need that theme, then you’ll want to host your own site and use wp.ORG software instead of free hosting and software here on wp.COM.
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  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm

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  Here are the only themes we can use on wp.COM:
  http://wordpress.com/themes/
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  dashboard—>appearance—>themes