I can't upload a new theme

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  dmspsymposium · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 8:49 pm

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  I want to upload a new theme that I’ve download from another website. What can I do? If I can’t do it with wordpress.com what can I do?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 11:06 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m sorry, but themes can’t be uploaded to WordPress.com. That’s a feature of self-hosted blogs through WordPress.org.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  You may use any of the available themes we have under Appearance > Themes in your dashboard, and you may want to look into purchasing the Custom Design Upgrade to customize one of the themes we offer:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  You can also post suggestions for new themes on our public user forum. Please see here for details:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-use-the-themes-forum

  If none of these options work for you, it would be best to move to self-hosted:

  http://wordpress.org/

  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org