Question regarding premium templates – Please Help

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  skybluephoto · Member · Mar 22, 2012 at 10:29 pm

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  Hi

  I have just signed up for a normal (free) WordPress account, and am looking at purchasing a premium template (specifically this one: http://themeforest.net/item/dandelion-powerful-elegant-wordpress-theme/136628?ref=directlink)

  Basically my question is, can I do all of the things noted in the features of the template, or do I need to pay for additional premium WordPress features? Basically I want to have no adverts on the site, and be able to upload my own logo and things to the site.

  Apologies for the silly questions, this is all new to me!

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 22, 2012 at 10:37 pm

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  Do NOT purchase that theme.

  It cannot work on your WordPress.com site. External themes are only for WordPress.ORG sites, which are running a different variety of WP.

  You don’t need a premium theme to do this anyway. Get any theme with a custom header and purchase the No Ads upgrade.

  You can choose any theme under Appearance->Themes on your dashboard. If it’s a premium theme, you’ll have to pay for it, but that’s all. You can’t add external themes to a WP.com blog at all, no matter what upgrades you have.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2012 at 10:37 pm

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  You cannot use that theme as we have no FTP access and we cannot upload any thrid party themes into free hosted WordPress.com blogs. Also mote that there is no upgrade that allows us to uplaod any thrid party themes into our blogs. The only themes we can use are found here > Appearance > Themes
  Some are premium themes we can purchase for one blog only and for the life of the blog here at WordPress.com. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/
  We cannot edit themes or templates on our blogs > http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
  We can purchase a custom design upgrade to change appearance only, not the way themes function. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  We can purchase a No-Ads upgrade to remove the advertising WordPress.com runs on our free hosted blogs. http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

  Please read this support documentation > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/