purchased theme trying to figure out how to install

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    brokenblondie · Member ·

    I am really trying to figure this out. I’m tech savvy but no genius.

    Bought a theme called resolution from a different site. I downloaded the file. In it there are two folders: Fonts and images. Then under Developer there are the following:
    footer.php
    functions.php
    header.php
    single.php
    page.php
    index.php
    404.php
    comments.php
    sidebar.php

    Then under documents there is:
    style.css

    Okay, I thought this was going to be simple where, like at blogger, you can just copy past html and voila new background.

    So on wordpress I went to the custom design section and pasted the style.css in and previewed. It doesn’t look right. Not layer out right. Font changed but that’s about it.
    Can anybody help me apply this theme to my wordpress blog?! Thanks!

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

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    We cannot add/upload themes at wordpress.COM. We are limited to the 200+ (and growing) themes found in the dashboard under appearance > themes. Themes found on the internet are for self-hosted wordpress blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG.

    Themes at wordpress.COM have to be modified to work within the restrictions here and to support the unique features.

    The differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org (self-hosted) sites.

    CSS is theme specific so the CSS for one theme will not work with another theme.

    You would have to work with the CSS for one of the existing themes here and recreate the look of the other theme as near as you can.

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    timethief · Member ·

    WordPress.com free hosted blogs on this multi-user blogging platform and self-hosted WordPress.org installs are different. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot upload any third party themes or edit templates or themes.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    The only themes we can use are those found here > Appearance > Themes
    This is a multiuser blogging platform. All blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and we cannot access the underlying files and edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/

    If you have CSS editing experience the custom design upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but will not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes at WordPress.COM. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/

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    timethief · Member ·

    @thesacredpath
    Good evening — sorry for being an echo. :)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Not a problem timethief and good evening to you!

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