If i purchase a premium theme do i get extra customisation options?

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  moralcoral · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 7:43 pm

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  Hi I’m wanting to upgrade my account to something a bit more customisable. I’ve been looking at the premium themes, if i purchase on do i get new customisable options on the dashboard relevant to that theme. I’m trying to weigh up wether to use a wordpress.com theme or move to wordpress.org. i just want to be able to add things like picture galleries and the customised widgets etc. I’m a bit confused about what the options are and what extra options i get with a premium theme.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 7:47 pm

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  No. When your purchase a premium themes a premium themes is all you get. See here please https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/

  Customization is available via either Premium bundle upgrades or Business bundle upgrades as they contain 1 year subscriptions for CSS editing upgrades.

  See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable Premium bundle http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ that contains a custom design upgrade required for CSS editing: Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/

  If you do purchase an upgrade please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 7:50 pm

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  oops! “your” ought to have been “you”.
  Do know that our support documentation is extensive and is all found at http://support.wordpress.com

  Regardless of themes, we can all create galleries https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/ and we can use any third party widgets as well as those provided https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/ that are not JavaScript or iframe codes. https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 7:52 pm

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  Note that as the username account you are logged in under was registered 4 years ago, you can directly and separately purchase only a custom design upgrade, rather than purchasing a bundle.

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  moralcoral · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 9:33 pm

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  Thanks for that

  so one more question if i buy a domain and hosting from 1&1 or blue host or any of the main sites and then instal wordier through that and migrate my old blog over, do i now get the same customisation options available on wordpress.org or is it still restricted like wordpress.com all i want to do is be able to change small bits of code like position and colours and really just basic bits but just find wordpress.com so restricted

  thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 9:36 pm

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  If you buy hosting from 1&1 and move there you can change your site to the point that it is completely crashed if you want – no real restrictions on the code or CSS changes (no extra upgrade required for code or CSS changes)