Themes: Not working

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  elaishagreen · Member · Sep 6, 2014 at 5:25 pm

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  I just downloaded a theme for my wordpress account (I’ve been working with wordpress blogs for years…) and unfortunately my dashboard for themes looks NOTHING like everyone else’s. It does not give me the ‘add new’ option for wordpress themes and I even tried to manually enter the ‘add new theme’ URL and it wouldn’t even let me into that gateway.

  Not sure what’s going on but I’ve been wasting over 3 hours trying to figure this out from every angle to no avail. I want to have the theme up before I link my URL.

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  lizthefair · Member · Sep 6, 2014 at 5:35 pm

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  Hi there,

  Is this the site you are trying to upload a theme to: http://elaishagreen.wordpress.com/

  If so, I’m afraid it won’t work. Your site is hosted on WordPress.COM and sites hosted here work a little different from the self-hosted WordPress sites you are used to.

  Here’s a little more on why themes can’t be added to WordPress.COM sites:http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#uploading-custom-themes

  Here’s more on the difference between WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/