choosing a theme for an online art gallery

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    ginacampari · Member ·

    HI,

    I am very interested in using a premium Word press theme for a build for an online art gallery. I have looked through the themes and themes like the “simple portfolio” look good, however there doesn’t seem a lot of gallery as such….i need it to be able to put in details of the art and have e commerce. Would this be an added on widget or plugin?
    Has anyone else used wordpress for a art gallery online and shopping componenet and can recommend any themes? I also would like of course to incorporate a blog.
    thank you
    GC

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    timethief · Member ·

    e-ccommerce? plugins? You are totally confused if you are referring to free hosted wordpress.com blogs. There is no FTP access and we cannot upload plugins at all. This below will answer your e-commerce question.

    In a nutshell free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM cannot be used to drive traffic to third-party sites by means of advertising and/or affiliate programs (see “Affiliate marketing blogs below for more clarity”).

    No blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs.

    The only advertising exceptions are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and for extremely high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
    http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
    http://vip.wordpress.com/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

    The only exceptions with regard to affiliate links are found here:

    Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    If you have any further questions please contact Staff directly using this link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

    If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links on your blog, you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Read the information at the link below to learn about the differences between free hosted WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org software installs for self hosting. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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