Title: WordPress.com hosting own theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress.com hosting own theme

 *  Resolved [gunnarflax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gunnarflax/)
 * (@gunnarflax)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/)
 * Hi!
    I’ve made my own theme and want to use it on my wordpress.com blog but I
   can’t find any option for uploading your own theme. Is this possible or do I 
   have to host the blog myself?

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 *  [mattb348](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattb348/)
 * (@mattb348)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/#post-1213419)
 * Hmmm I beleive this is possible. I use wordpress on my own domain, and this is
   fairly easy to do. You need to have an FTP program and upload the theme folder
   into your “wp-content/themes” folder, assuming that you have one (since you are
   hosting on the actual wordpress.org domain). Once (and if) you get the template
   folder uploaded into that directory properly, it is just a matter of logging 
   into your admin area, and then activating the theme (by clicking “activate”).
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/#post-1213433)
 * If you have your own domain you can install new themes.
 * Otherwise there are types of things you can do at wordpress.COM but it’s better
   to direct that question to [http://support.wordpress.com/contact/](http://support.wordpress.com/contact/)
 *  Thread Starter [gunnarflax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gunnarflax/)
 * (@gunnarflax)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/#post-1213580)
 * Ok, thanks for the replies. mattb348, the problem there is that I do not have
   ftp access to the wordpress server except through the admin-panel. There I can
   only choose one of the templates wordpress offers. I will try contact the support
   for this one, I think. Thank you very much!
 *  [flyincat0912](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyincat0912/)
 * (@flyincat0912)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/#post-1213727)
 * buy a web hosting and a domain name, start your own site. just like my blog: 
   [http://www.maggogo.com](http://www.maggogo.com/)

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 * [own](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/own/)
 * [style](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style/)

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 * Last reply from: [flyincat0912](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyincat0912/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-hosting-own-theme/#post-1213727)
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