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  itsnatts · Member · May 31, 2012 at 7:23 am

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  Hi there!

  I´ve been asked to change the theme of this blog and appart that it´s not in my language I have some problems in changing the theme beacuse it only let me upload other wordpress themes, not the .zip file I bought for them…
  Any reason of why is this happening? What can I do?
  Thanks in advance

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 31, 2012 at 7:26 am

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  I’m sorry, but themes can’t be uploaded to WordPress.com. That’s a feature of self-hosted blogs through WordPress.org.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  You may use any of the available themes we have under Appearance > Themes in your dashboard, and you may want to look into purchasing the Custom Design Upgrade to customize one of the themes we offer:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  You can also post suggestions for new themes on our public user forum. Please see here for details:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-use-the-themes-forum

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  itsnatts · Member · May 31, 2012 at 7:39 am

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  Thanks macmanx!
  I see an option of upgrading to pro…. will this allow me to change the theme??

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 31, 2012 at 7:42 am

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  No, that option is not available on WordPress.com.

  You would need to install WordPress yourself from http://wordpress.org/ through a hosting provider. We have some recommended hosting providers at http://get.wp.com/hosting/