Installing an external theme

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  veganvibrance · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 12:14 am

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  I have purchased a custom domain name and genesis and a theme called foodie pro. Theres no button that says install theme, how do I get this? I have spent alot of money on these themes and they say they are with wordpress. How can I get it to work? Im only a beginner and know very very little, ive been on both forums and found nothing.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 11:23 am

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  Hi there,

  Themes can’t be uploaded to sites 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 if you’re curious about that.

  On WordPress.com, you can select from a variety of themes to change your blog’s appearance. 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 in our theme showcase.

  For example, you might want to check out these themes created with food bloggers in mind:

  • Yumblog
  • Healthy Living
  • Zuki

  You can also 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

  Please let me know if you have any other questions about that. :)