I have already a theme on my PC

  • Unknown's avatar
    azerifood · Member ·

    Hi. I have paid and downloaded the theme from:

    http://themeforest.net/item/food-recipes-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/1923882

    How can I import it in my blog and use it?

    Thank you very much for helping!
    Best regards
    Güllü

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

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi Güllü.

    Themes can’t be uploaded to sites hosted on WordPress.com. They can only be uploaded to self-hosted sites running on the free software available at WordPress.org. You can read more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

    Here at WordPress.com, we offer a variety of over 300 hand-picked themes for you to choose from, and we add more to this list frequently. You can view all of the themes in our repository and filter them by specific criteria here:

    http://wordpress.com/themes/

    What’s your site going to be about? Maybe I could help you by suggesting a theme that would suit. :)

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    azerifood · Member ·

    Thank you very much, Siobhan. My site is about food – recipes with step by step pictures. I have had the trouble with my old provider, they have upgraded theirs servers and they can’t support so many pages since each recipe is one new page. My site is in 4 languages and the recipes repeats but in different languages. The site I mentioned in my previously request is very attractive and has been suggested by my old provider. And since it has “word-press” in the content I thought that I could use it. It has some changing of pictures as flash and I think, it is very attractive. I am pretty new in “your word” so it is a little bit difficult to find out. I am neither so good for creating of the websites. So much help will be appreciated. And thank you very much in advance! :)
    Best regards
    Güllü

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi Güllü.

    Perfect! You can actually filter themes in our repository that have been marked in the ‘Food’ category here:

    https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/food/

    Out of those options, if you liked the slider in the theme you previously linked to, then Beacon could be a nice theme for you. Sela is also one of our more popular themes, and I think you could create a really good looking food blog with it.

    It’s also worth noting that WordPress.com has a built in recipes shortcode that you can use to make sure your recipes all have consistent, easy-to-print formatting:

    Recipes Shortcode

    Let me know if you have any questions on any of that. I’ll be happy to help further.

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    azerifood · Member ·

    You are a star! Thank you very much! I will learn about them tomorrow, I have day off. :) Just one question more. I don’t want to have a blog, but I have already a site, and I want to integrate this site to “blog” I will use from here. I think, I have related my site to the blog. Just to be sure, when my blog is ready to be used can everybody use just my original link or the link with name “blog.wordpress”? My site is 8 years old and very popular and many users know this site exactly by my original link. So it will be annoying to use the new link. :(

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Just to be sure, when my blog is ready to be used can everybody use just my original link or the link with name “blog.wordpress”? My site is 8 years old and very popular and many users know this site exactly by my original link. So it will be annoying to use the new link. :(

    You can map your existing domain to your WordPress.com site by following our guide here:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

    This will replace the free, underlying ‘.wordpress.com’ site address so that visitors only ever see your original domain. :) Hope that helps!

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