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  seanasewell · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 10:09 pm

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  I am doing local hosting and I can’t change theme without ftp login informaiton

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 1:11 am

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  We do not provide support for any local installs of WordPress.ORG software or in fact for any self hosted WordPress.ORG installs here either. We provide support here only for blogs hosted by WordPress.COM and no others.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the Theme support forums there.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 1:16 am

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  This site is a WordPress.COM hosted blog http://seanasewell.wordpress.com/ that we do provide support for.

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot upload any third party themes.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.

  Here at WordPress.COM themes are just “skins”. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and/or in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do some work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme and have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click “activate” or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes on blogs hosted by WordPress.COM like yours.

  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.