It's not letting me change the theme!
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I am following all of the directions on how to change the theme, but the button labeled ‘New Theme’ is not showing up.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Can you tell me exactly which theme you would like to change it to? If you go to the support page of any theme, it will allow you to activate it onto your site.
For example, if you go here: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyfifteen/ there is an activate button.
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I purchased the ‘Artist of the Year’ theme and would like to upload it to replace my current theme. (third party)
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I see what you mean. Please note that 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 here:
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:
If you would like to move to WordPress.org to use this theme, please let me know and I can provide you further instructions.
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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:
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 itâs right for you:
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