Trouble Uploading a Theme I purchased

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  markebutler · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 6:43 pm

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  I cannot upload a custom theme on my dashboard, there is no link which allows me to add a new theme
  Blog url: http://markebutler.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 6:47 pm

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  There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and we cannot install individual plugins or third party themes into them. Those found on the internet are for WordPress.ORG installs which run on different software.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
  On free hosted wordpress.COM blogs we can only use the themes which have been coded to run on this multi-user software and made available to us here. > Appearance > Themes and no others. Also note that we cannot edit either themes or templates on free hosted wordpress.COM blogs. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/

  If you wish to have complete control over a blog, FTP access, the ability to upload themes and plugins, and to edit themes and templates then your option is to hire a web host and get a free software install from WordPress.ORG and self host it.

  If you are asking about a WordPress.org install then you are posting to the wrong support forum and must post to http://wordpress.org/support/
  For clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/