Importing a new theme

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  aproko247 · Member · Jan 5, 2013 at 12:31 am

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  good day, please, how do i import a personally designed wordpress compatible theme into my wordpress self hosted blog?

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 5, 2013 at 12:32 am

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  You would have to ask over at the forum for self-hosted blogs, at WordPress.ORG.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 5, 2013 at 12:32 am

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  You don’t because you can’t use it here.

  If you intend to blog here at WordPress.com on the blog linked to your username or on any WordPress.com blog then you need to know that the only themes we can use on WordPress.com blogs are found here > Appearance > Themes

  You cannot build your own theme here. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins or upload any third party themes or software. Those are for WordPress.ORG installs which run on different software.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  There is no upgrade that you can purchase from WordPress.com that provides FTP access, the ability to install plugins, third party themes and software into free hosted WordPress.com blogs.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 5, 2013 at 12:34 am

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  Thanks raincoaster.

  @aproko247
  Support for self hosted blogs is provided on the WordPress.ORG support forums and they are here http://wordpress.org/support/ If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.org, click that link and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the correct support forums for your software.

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  aproko247 · Member · Jan 5, 2013 at 12:37 am

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  but i have already upgraded my free blog to a paid one? what do i do now?