Store ability with theme

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  spgmfg · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 9:15 pm

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  I need to know if I can turn this theme into a estore – http://nexusdemo.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 9:17 pm

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  No you cannot do that. You cannot have an online store on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. No reselling anything made by anyone else is allowed on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce transactions with shopping carts and no blogger initiated advertising or paid or sponsored content is allowed. The only things you can sell on WP.com blogs are products that you, yourself create and/or services that you personally provide. For an online store with a shopping cart you need an independently hosted blog using WordPress.ORG software.
  http://wordpress.org

  For selling only your own creations and/or only service you personally provide on a free hosted WordPress.com blog see http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  If and only if you are marketing only what you personally create and you already have a online shop with a shopping cart somewhere else online you can create a custom menu and add a custom link to it.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Menus

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  skycastindies · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 4:19 pm

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  Can you have a store on a premium wordpress.com account?

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 5:15 pm

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  No

  For what you want you need to move off WordPress.COM, buy your own hosting, domain name and install the WordPress.ORG software. Then you can use all sorts of e-commerce themes & Plugin’s

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 8, 2014 at 9:56 pm

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  Well, you could have a store if you had one of the $30,000 a year VIP blogs.