Title: Install theme issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Install theme issue

 *  [skybluu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluu/)
 * (@skybluu)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-issue/)
 * Yes i understand there is a million different topics on this, but i have searched
   through all of them and none of them really answer my questions.
 * Ill tell you the situation.
 * I have my own domain ($17 a year from WordPress.com), I host with hostgator($
   80-$90 a year) and i have installed wordpress through the cpanel on hostgator.
 * That is as far as I have gotten (I do apologize I am VERY new to this)
 * When i go back to my website to the dashboard it still does not have an install
   theme button.
    Now when people say wordpress.com does not allow installing themes
   and informs to go to wordpress.org…there is no dashboard for my site on wordpress.
   org let alone a log in button.
 * So what have I done wrong and what do I need to do?
    Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [skybluu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluu/)
 * (@skybluu)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-issue/#post-2284699)
 * I do go to wordpress.com to access the dashboard, is there something i need to
   do to migrate it to wordpress.org?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-issue/#post-2284744)
 * You need to speak to the folks at wordpress.com about transferring your domain
   name to your new self-hosted WordPress site.
 *  Thread Starter [skybluu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluu/)
 * (@skybluu)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-issue/#post-2284855)
 * Hi, thanks for your reply. I think i have solved the problem.
    Just so if anyone
   else reads this i contacted Hostgator who were very helpful and informed me that
   my nameservers were not pointing towards hostgator. I changed that and now im
   just awaiting the allotted time to see if it works.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [skybluu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-issue/#post-2284855)
 * Status: not resolved

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