i purchased bluehost and now i am unsure if I need to purchase a plan through wordpress

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  lindsaylazarephotography · Member · Dec 29, 2017 at 6:37 pm

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  I am trying to start my photography website here. I bought a custom theme. I purchased a olan through bluehost. do I need to purchase through wordpress as well?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2017 at 6:38 pm

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  Is that theme found here https://wordpress.com/themes/?

  Unless you have a wordpress.COM hosted site with a Business plan upgrade https://wordpress.com/pricing/ you cannot install any plugins in addition to those that are built in to all of our sites, and you cannot install third party or custom themes.

  There is no FTP access to wordpress.COM hosted sites.

  Please read:
  FTP access http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  Blogger installed plugins http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  Uploading Custom Themes or Third Party Themes
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  Business Plan
  http://wordpress.com/pricing
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/business-plan/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo-tools/

  Also note that if you upgrade to a Business plan and install plugins, and then downgrade to a lower plan, the plugins and all features unique to the Business plan will no longer be available for your use.

  If you do not wish to purchase a Business plan see also: moving to self hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2017 at 6:41 pm

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  re: Bluehost

  Note that it is possible that you are posting to the wrong support forum. To be clear we do not provide support for local installs of WordPress.ORG software, or for WordPress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, linked to WordPress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites WordPress.COM account page.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  The wordpress.ORG support forum is at http://wordpress.org/support. The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
  See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/ for app support.