Installing a theme to my wordpress hosted site

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  benhotchin · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 3:31 pm

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  HI

  I am trying to upload and install a theme (The7 — Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme) that I have purchased on theme forest. However I don’t seem to be able to upload the theme to my WordPress site.

  I was able to upload the theme when my domain was hosted by Godaddy however with this site being hosted by WordPress its self there doesn’t seem to be an option to upload a theme?!?!

  Can you point me in the right direction please as I cant seem to find where this can be done!!

  Thank you

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 7:40 pm

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  Hi Ben!

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

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  On WordPress.com, you can select from a variety of themes to change your blog’s appearance. You can read more about customizing the appearance and theme of your blog on WordPress.com here:

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

  We offer over 300 themes, both free themes and premium themes created by leading theme companies. You can view all of our themes and filter them by specific criteria here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/

  Right now it appears The7 is not available for WordPress.com. You can however post suggestions for new themes we might add on our public user forum:

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

  Best,

  -Alex G.

  Happiness Engineer | WordPress.com