Title: Use wordpress.com theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Use wordpress.com theme

 *  [ddonofrio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddonofrio/)
 * (@ddonofrio)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-wordpresscom-theme/)
 * I really like the wordpress.com theme “Forever” but want to run it on my own 
   site powered by wordpress.org. can i do that?

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 *  [aWEBthatWORKS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awebthatworks/)
 * (@awebthatworks)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-wordpresscom-theme/page/3/#post-2546020)
 * I had some trouble using TortoiseSVN, but I have a site mirroring program called
   [HTTrack ](http://www.httrack.com/).
 * I just gave it the URL:
    [https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/forever/](https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/forever/)
   and it saved all the files and folders for me. I did this for 3 themes at once,
   since I couldn’t choose.
 * Thought this might save someone some grief 🙂
 *  [An Uneducated Palate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/an-uneducated-palate/)
 * (@an-uneducated-palate)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-wordpresscom-theme/page/3/#post-2546025)
 * I would also like to switch to the _Forever_ theme but I lack the confidence 
   to install it myself using the instructions in this thread (I’m a MAC user).
 * How would a person go about requesting that this theme (or any theme for that
   matter) be added to the WordPress.org Theme Directory?
 *  [OfColour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofcolour/)
 * (@ofcolour)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-wordpresscom-theme/page/3/#post-2546040)
 * OMG!
 * This was completely boggling my mind. I am like the above member, and had only
   heard of svns yesterday.
 * Here is a VERY SIMPLE way to use svn with a mac and the link to forever provided
   without using ANY other apps.
 * 1) Open Finder
    2) Go to Go on the Bar at the top 3) Select connect to Server
   4) Paste the URL for the SVN forever files 5) Select Guest 6) The file uploads
   to your computer 7) In the video it uploads to a neat file that’s compressible,
   but on my computer it uploaded to a shared file that I couldn’t compress here’s
   what i did: 8) I selected all the files in the shared folder, copied and pasted
   them to a new folder i made on my desktop 9) then I compressed and uploaded the
   zip file to wordpress and wallah it just uploaded perfectly. I was shocked to
   see that it was installed properly.
 * yeah!
 *  [Cabriolet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cabriolet/)
 * (@cabriolet)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-wordpresscom-theme/page/3/#post-2546045)
 * Many, many thanks to VModarelli for laying out the groundwork for my uploading
   of the Forever theme to my self-hosted website.
 * Cheers!

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