Hosted Custom Design

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  caryhsnjrotc · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 7:55 pm

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  If I have my blog hosted by InMotion and it is not a WORDPRESS hosted site, can I still use and implement the Custom Design Upgrade?

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:09 pm

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  No. The upgrades can only be purchased for use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs being hosted right here on this multiuser blogging platform and not anywhere else.

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  caryhsnjrotc · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:13 pm

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  Is there a way to have custom fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc.,,if the site is hosted elsewhere?

  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:16 pm

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  We provide support here for free hosted WordPress.com blogs only. Contact your web host please as this is a no-productive exchange.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:17 pm

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  no-productive = non-productive

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  caryhsnjrotc · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:21 pm

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  Sorry Time-Thief…..I am trying to learn……But clearly…. I am not in “the Group”

  Obviously, I don’t understand how things work.

  Appreciate your bluntness.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:25 pm

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  Bluntly stated anyone who has HTML and CSS editing skills can edit any theme. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  caryhsnjrotc · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:28 pm

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  Clearly, I do have an account as indicated by my avatar “member”.

  But you have helped me decide.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:46 pm

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  WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different versions of themes by the same name.

  You have this blog hosted here at WordPress.com http://caryhsnjrotc.wordpress.com/ If you purchase a custom design upgrade for it and CSS edit the theme here at WordPress.com, then when you hire a web host and move the content into a WordPress.org install you cannot export the theme or the work you did on it.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/