How to import a new theme?

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  catacroi · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 1:05 am

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  Hello!
  What am I supposed to do to INSTALL or to UPLOAD an external theme, other than the ones offered by WP?

  Thank you!

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 1:23 am

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  You CAN’T. At WordPress.com you can only use the themes on the Dashboard Themes page; you can neither INSTALL nor UPLOAD an external theme.

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  catacroi · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 1:57 am

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  Why? I’ve read around about the possibility o installing a new theme from the
  wp-admin
  directory…

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 2:17 am

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  Which we don’t have access to here. You’re reading instructions for WordPress.ORG blogs, and you don’t have one of those.

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  catacroi · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 2:45 am

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  So it means I do have to install on my computer
  WordPress 3.5.1
  and I have to have a domain to upload it there and after that I will be able to INSTALL or to UPLOAD anything I want…
  Right?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 2:48 am

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  Wrong.

  In order for it to be online, you need a server. If you don’t own a server and have a server contract with your ISP, you will need to buy hosting somewhere. You’ll need to buy hosting, buy a domain name, install software from WordPress.org into the webspace, and then there you go.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 20, 2013 at 3:27 am

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  Here is info about the different kinds of WordPress:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  quoting raincoaster:

  You’ll need to buy hosting, buy a domain name, install software from WordPress.org