What happened to the "Add New Theme" option?

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  stylemode101 · Member · Jul 12, 2014 at 4:12 pm

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  I deleted my website from wordpress in the efforts of bringing the revised version into wordpress… before doing so I updated wordpress…when i attempted to add my theme back in there was not a add new theme option available. Anyone have this issue?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 12, 2014 at 4:14 pm

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  There has been a change to the post editor interface at https://wordpress.com/post/ and Staff are recommending that we bypass the New Dash in favor of posting directly on our sites at Dashboard > Posts > Add New. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/where-did-the-add-media-button-go?replies=2#post-1927520

  For image uploading please note the Staff response here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-is-there-now-only-small-pictures-in-the-post-can-i-get-them-big-again?replies=3#post-1927594

  There will be further new iterations of the post editor at https://wordpress.com/post/ and that is why the advice is to go to Dashboard > Post > Add New

  For inserting images see http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/adding-images-to-posts-or-pages/

  For image editing see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 12, 2014 at 4:16 pm

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  What happened to the “Add New Theme” option?

  The only themes we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs like your blog at http://stylemode101.wordpress.com/ are the themes found here http://wordpress.com/themes/

  There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons and we cannot:
  upload any third party themes,
  create child themes,
  create our own themes,
  edit templates,
  create own own layouts,
  or use stylesheets from other themes.

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

  No chnage has been made and there is no upgrade you can purchase that changes that. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can create themes, upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database, etc. If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.