help! need to install theme forest theme into wordpress

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I bought a theme on theme forest, but for the life of me I don’t know how to get it installed on wordpress. All the tutorials tell me I go to my wordpress dashboard and just click on appearances and upload themes. This option is not available on my dashboard though.

Do I need to be hosted by someone other than wordpress.com? I think this kind of information should really be on the themeforest site, I think many people have this problem!

Please help!

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http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes

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Yes you need to have your own domain and hosting. WordPress.com does not support external themes

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I also have problems with installing a theme on wordpress. I already have a blog but I don’t know how to put this new theme. Do I have to buy a domain from wordpress or what?

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alexandradinca said

I also have problems with installing a theme on wordpress. I already have a blog but I don’t know how to put this new theme. Do I have to buy a domain from wordpress or what?

You cannot use themes form here with wordpress.COM websites. You have to have your OWN domain and hosting

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So first I have to buy a domain and hosting from wordpress and then I can use it?

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  1. Make sure you have your OWN domain and hosting (NOT WordPress.com site) so use Godaddy, or hostgator, or mediatemple, or WPengine etc

  2. Visit https://en-gb.wordpress.org/ & download the WordPress files

  3. Install these on your website (there may be an easier or quick way to do this depending on where your hosting comes from)

  4. Upload & activate the new theme

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My domain is through godaddy. i’m building my site on wordpress.com I purchased a theme on themeforest. How do I integrate three.

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You cannot use WordPress.com with themes from here.

You need your own domain and your own hosting

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Gee… this kind of information might be good to make available in your MARKETPLACE. Kind of sucks learning about it only on an obscure forum after I’ve bought and downloaded. Never using this site again, and will encourage others to go elsewhere as well.

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Bear in mind that you can’t install third party themes on a WordPress.com site irrelevant of you buy it from here or anywhere else. https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

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Amazingly in 2017, they still have not helped their customers to install on our own… it’s disgusting.

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Same here! Thieves to not tell us this information at purchase.

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I’m a total noob, just purchased a theme from here today. But I found this tutorial on importing/installing themes on WP and maybe it will help. https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/how-to-install-your-theme/