Is there any way to use a theme already purchased from a different site?

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  betwixtmagnolias · Member · Mar 7, 2012 at 8:14 pm

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  I have purchased a theme from themeforest.com and would like to use it with my site but it is being hosted by wordpress.com so it cannot be uploaded. Is there any way to use this separately purchased theme or am I out $30?
  Blog url: http://betwixtmagnolias.wordpress.com

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 7, 2012 at 10:56 pm

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  I’m sorry, but themes can’t be uploaded to WordPress.com. That’s a feature of self-hosted blogs through WordPress.org.

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

  You may use any of the available themes we have under Appearance > Themes in your dashboard, and you may want to look into purchasing the Custom Design Upgrade to customize one of the themes we offer:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  You can also post suggestions for new themes on our public user forum. Please see here for details:

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

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  betwixtmagnolias · Member · Mar 8, 2012 at 1:24 am

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  I have also upgraded to videopress, will that carry over if I decide to host my site elsewhere?

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Mar 8, 2012 at 4:57 pm

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  If you decide to host your site elsewhere, using the free WordPress software, you can use the VideoPress plugin to embed your VideoPress videos:

  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/