You could probably adapt the theme for self-hosted wordpress, but first, search and be sure it isn’t available: WordPress › Free WordPress Themes or Google the name of the theme.
For some reason, I always feel like a criminal when I do this , but take a look in the SVN repository and see if the theme you are using is there.
http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/
If it’s there, maybe you can download it using an svn client?
For some reason, I always feel like a criminal when I do this
No reason for that feeling.
It’s just good advice.
Even I didn’t know about svn for .com themes…..
i didnt either. thats an excellent link.
I’m in a similar situation: trying to move from wordpress.com to ww.wp.xz.cn (with GoDaddy hosting) and simply want the latter one to be a mirror image of the former. I’m coming across a ton of problems with this, but it seems like the biggest is that the .org dashboard doesn’t have the theme I used (Ocean Mist).
I downloaded this theme, then uploaded it piece by piece through GoDaddy’s file manager. This seemed to have worked, as Ocean Mist shows up with a preview thumbnail and description alongside the default themes. When I activated it, however, the output was really messy compared to the .com blog.
A subsequent problem is that the theme doesn’t want to let me upload a custom header image under “Appearance” like it did on the .com blog. Ocean Mist is definitely on the list of themes that support this, so I’m confused here. Does it have something to do with the fact that I had to manually upload the theme?
Slightly less significant is the fact that the images that transfered over to the new site have horizontal scratchy bars running through them. I can probably manually fix this for each one, but I’m just wondering why this happened.
Any help would be great, as this is incredibly frustrating. I thought I was over the hump in getting things straightened out with GoDaddy, but I guess that was just the beginning.
