Title: Difficulty adding a new theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Difficulty adding a new theme

 *  [JanetMermaid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janetmermaid/)
 * (@janetmermaid)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-adding-a-new-theme/)
 * I purchased a theme from Envato called Redline and now want to use it. I read
   their installation instructions, which said to go to WordPress –> Appearance –
   > Themes and click the Add New option. I don’t HAVE that option. I did a help
   search and got instructions to drag the Redline folder and all contents into 
   the WordPress –> wp-content –> themes folder. I tried that too. I even restarted
   Safari. The theme did not show up and I still have no add button. Please help.

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 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-adding-a-new-theme/#post-4879718)
 * Sounds as though your user role is not Administrator.
 * Do you have the “Appearance” menu item in the menu list on the left when you 
   log in? If not, then you most definitely are not set up as an Administrator, 
   which you need to be in order to add themes/plugins, etc.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-adding-a-new-theme/#post-4879740)
 * > I don’t HAVE that option.
 * if you don’t have that option, your site might be with WordPress.**com**
 * if you have a selfhosted site based on WordPress.**org**, review [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes)
   and please continue to contact Envato directly for support.
 * commercial themes might be different to install.
 * without direct free access to the commercial theme, this forum cannot really 
   help;
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products)
 *  Thread Starter [JanetMermaid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janetmermaid/)
 * (@janetmermaid)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-adding-a-new-theme/#post-4879772)
 * Aargh! You are right — the blog I just created is on wordpress.com. I didn’t 
   even realize both existed. OK, now what? I already purchased the new theme. I’m
   a novice at this (I was an expert at GoLive so having to start all over is very
   frustrating). I appreciate help on what I need to do now so I can use my new 
   theme with my blog.

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## Tags

 * [add button](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/add-button/)
 * [Envato](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/envato/)
 * [theme installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-installation/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [JanetMermaid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janetmermaid/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-adding-a-new-theme/#post-4879772)
 * Status: not resolved

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