themes
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hello i am new to wordpress. am i right in presuming that people, companies, buy themes, and post them themes on their blogs and place links to their website?
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Hi there,
Unfortunately, you are confusing wordpress.COM hosted blogs and wordpress.ORG installs on paid hosting. There is no FTP access https://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/ and you cannot upload any custom themes or third party themes, or create your own theme here at wordpress.COM, or use stylesheets from another theme. There is no wordpress.COm upgrade that changes that. You can do those only on wordpress.ORG installs on paid hosting.The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at >Dashboard >Appearance > Themes
Read: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Be sure to read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you wish to move to self-hosting your own wordpress.org install, this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to a Self-Hosted WordPress Site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/For a wordpress.ORG software install on paid hosting if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set up instructions and a live demo site. The theme on your site now has a detailed theme description page here https://wordpress.com/themes/ryu/ and a live demo site here https://ryudemo.wordpress.com/
Switching themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you 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 the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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hi timethief, thank you for that detailed answer. I was asking the question as a rival business has hundreds of backlinks to his website and I was trying to find out what these pages were. I have just looked again and noticed they are all wordpress.org not .com. thanks again
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