Title: Using WordPress.com theme with WordPress.org
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using WordPress.com theme with WordPress.org

 *  [marschel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marschel/)
 * (@marschel)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/)
 * I have a free blog on WordPress.com and also a hosted one on WordPress.org. I
   like the theme I have on the WordPress.com site better but isn’t available at
   WordPress.org. Ideally I want both to have the same appearance. Can I upload 
   the .com theme to .org somehow?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282203)
 * You could probably adapt the theme for self-hosted wordpress, but first, search
   and be sure it isn’t available: [WordPress › Free WordPress Themes](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/)
   or Google the name of the theme.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282224)
 * 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/](http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/)
 * If it’s there, maybe you can download it using an svn client?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282230)
 * > For some reason, I always feel like a criminal when I do this
 * No reason for that feeling.
 * It’s just good advice.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282237)
 * Even I didn’t know about svn for .com themes…..
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282238)
 * i didnt either. thats an excellent link.
 *  [eawohnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eawohnet/)
 * (@eawohnet)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/#post-1282525)
 * I’m in a similar situation: trying to move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org(
   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.

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