Custom themes

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  spiralviii · Member · Jul 10, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  Hi, I bought a custom theme from themeforest.

  Now, I’m new here. And quickly discovered that I dont believe I can install it because am on the free version of wordpress. But I have a domain name which i bought a while ago. Now…if I somehow found a way to re direct to that domain page (www.spiralviii.com) would I be able to install the custom theme I purchased?

  Thanks.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 10, 2014 at 5:37 pm

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  Even with a custom domain you won’t be able to install a custom theme as you’ll still be hosted with WordPress.com. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  The only way to use a custom theme is to set up a self-hosted WordPress.ORG website on your domain. You can then redirect your wordpress.com address to your self-hosted domain.

  See these links for more information on self-hosted sites:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  And here for information on the site redirect: http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/