Downloading a Theme

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  cjmg17 · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 5:39 am

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  Im new to blogging and was reading the difference between wordpress.com and .org. Just for clarification, If there is a theme/background I want to download from a different website I can only so that on wordpress.org?

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  chinscrilla · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 5:53 am

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  apparently. But org is more complicated. You have to actually have experience coding and a whole bunch of other stuff in order to get set up. This is ridiculous…

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 7:42 am

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  Hi,

  See the Uploading Custom Themes section of the Themes support page. Or, for more details, the Uploading Custom Themes support page, which despite its promising title gives you the following sad news:

  As such, we are not able to support uploading of custom WordPress themes on our service.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 7:44 am

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  The Uploading Custom Themes section of the Themes support page says:

  Uploading a third-party or custom theme is possible only on self-hosted sites using the WordPress.org software.