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I just bought a theme, how come it won't transfer over to my own domain?

  1. marvinnmoore
    Member

    I purchased the Modern Times theme a couple of weeks ago and tweaked it to whee I like it and wanted to export over to my own domain. All of the posts and comments transferred OK. How do I accomplish this? Since there is no contact number for WordPress this support group is my only option. Can't someone at WordPress just get me the theme files that the Hosting service needs?

    On the other hand, I purchased my own domain so I could sell advertising. If I just map to the existing domain mysocialmobilemedia.wordpress.com and call it http://blog.mysocialmobilemedia.com, is this feasible? I spent allot of time not to mention money to throw the design away and start over.

    The blog I need help with is mysocialmobilemedia.wordpress.com.

  2. motre
    Member

    It does not appear that you have your mysocialmobilemedia.wordpress.com mapped to blog.mysocialmobilemedia.com yet. Have you done that mapping, yet? Are you the owner of mysocialmobilemedia.com?

  3. marvinnmoore
    Member

    I am the owner. All i want to do is take the wordpress site and make it http://www.mysocialmobilemedia,com. like I said all of the posts, categories and tags converted over, the theme did not. Theres some crappy looking theme there now. I'm playing around with it right now.

  4. marvinnmoore
    Member

    sorry the address is http://www.mysocialmobilemedia.com there's a comma in the link above.

  5. timethief
    Member

    Note: Premium Themes are customized for WordPress.com usage only, and cannot be transferred to self-hosted WordPress.org sites. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/

  6. motre
    Member

    Your domain is pointing to an outside hosting service called Bluehost. Is it your intention to run your blog at Bluehost, or at WordPress.COM? You have a nice looking blog here already. Why not just host the domain here, too?

  7. auxclass
    Member

    I purchased my own domain so I could sell advertising.

    Means you need to move to a WordPress.ORG install since you can't sell ads here.

  8. marvinnmoore
    Member

    timethief, it would have been nice if i had known that beforehand..i never saw that in print.

    motre,
    I want to transfer to Bluehost so i can sell advertising space. as far as I know if I did have my own doamin name here on wordpress, i still could not have advertising as long as it is hosted on their servers?

  9. auxclass
    Member

    I saw in another thread that some custom theme designers are giving those that purchased a custom theme here a break if they move to a .ORG install - that will vary from theme designer to designer and they did reserve the right to change the policy.

    Try contacting the original theme designer and see if they have some sort of "move to .ORG special"

  10. marvinnmoore
    Member

    Thanks Auxclass, i'll check it out.

    oh, was by your site. I laughed about the cell phone incidents.

  11. auxclass
    Member

    You be welcome & good luck

    Thanks for dropping by my site

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