Download theme files

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  marcobloomart · Member · Sep 7, 2015 at 10:49 am

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  Hi everybody,
  is it possible to download purchased theme files ?
  Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 7, 2015 at 11:34 am

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  Hi there. It is not possible to download WordPress.com themes as you cannot edit those files or use them anywhere else. If there’s a self-hosted version of your theme you can download that, but the self-hosted version of a theme differs greatly from the WordPress.com version, so it wouldn’t help you to do that anyway.

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  marcobloomart · Member · Sep 7, 2015 at 12:20 pm

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  Thank you for your answer. I own a domain with my site, is there a way to use a purchased theme on my site ? Have I to build my site on your wordpress.com space and then change my DNS so that they direct http://www.mydomain.com to myblog.wordpress.com ?
  Thank you

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 7, 2015 at 12:24 pm

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  The only themes we can use on WordPress.com are the ones available in the theme gallery: https://wordpress.com/themes/

  If you bought a theme somewhere else you won’t be able to use it here.

  If you want to use a domain you already own with a WordPress.com site, you need to buy the domain mapping upgrade, as well as point your domain’s name servers to WordPress.com. If you don’t buy the upgrade, changing the name servers won’t have any effect. https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/