Installing a Themeforest theme

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  designingaman · Member · Mar 20, 2014 at 1:54 am

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  I bought a theme from ThemeForest that specifically supports WordPress. Your site is saying it does not support custom themes. Please advise if this is true….can I use the ThemeForest theme (that specifically supports WordPress) or not?

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  Aman

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 22, 2014 at 6:52 pm

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  Hello there,

  Third-party themes cannot be uploaded to WordPress.com-hosted sites. However, we do offer over 250 premium and free themes to our users. You can view those here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/

  If you absolutely want to use an outside theme, you can create a self-hosted website via WordPress.org. Self-hosted sites take more elbow-grease to build and maintain, but will also give you more design freedom.

  Here’s a description of the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  If you choose to make the transition, this guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  If you have any other questions, please let me know!