Help with customising my blog. Where to start.

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  journalistinablog · Member · May 28, 2009 at 7:25 pm

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  I had a wordpress.com blog – journalistinablog.wordpress.com
  I wanted to purchase a domain and make it into journalistinablog.com
  I did this through wordpress.com and it appears like this now which I am happy about but I thought if you had your own domain you could edit html and css but it is still only allowing me to use wordpress.com themes etc.

  I want to be able to customise my blog completely with my own themes and css if possible.

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

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  ellaella · Member · May 28, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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  The support information for the domain mapping upgrade is explicit about what the upgrade covers:

  Domain Mapping

  Notably:

  * Mapped blogs are still subject to our Terms of Service.
  * Purchasing the Domain Mapping upgrade does NOT give you the permission to use advertising, post any kind of prohibited code, or upload any themes or plugins.
  * You will NOT have FTP access to your blog. If you want this, you should head on over WordPress.org

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  journalistinablog · Member · May 28, 2009 at 8:10 pm

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  Ok so if I guess I just wasted money for nothing then. Can I move my blog from wordpress.com onto wordpress.org without having to upload everything again

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 8:33 pm

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  WordPress.ORG is NOT a hosting service. You would have to hire a webhost, download the software from wordpress.ORG and install it on the webhost, then export your blog data from here and then import it into the new blog.

  http://support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ (see also the “related” support documents on import and export in this link)

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 8:34 pm

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  And, what you can and cannot do with the CSS upgrade is outlined in this support document on the CSS upgrade: http://support.wordpress.com/custom-css/

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  ellaella · Member · May 28, 2009 at 8:40 pm

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  And clarification about wordpress.ORG vs .COM is here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

  /nod to tsp!

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  raincoaster · Member · May 28, 2009 at 9:24 pm

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  Every upgrade in WP.com applies specifically and ONLY to exactly what it says. You’re not the first person to make the mistake of confusing a domain name with an entirely new set of conditions.