Title: Things Missing on Dashboard – please help
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Things Missing on Dashboard – please help

 *  [BlondeinaBlazer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blondeinablazer/)
 * (@blondeinablazer)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/things-missing-on-dashboard-please-help/)
 * Hi,
 * I just bought my own domain name with wordpress and am trying to set up a theme
   when I noticed that:
 * 1. When I go to themes, the option to upload a custom theme is missing and can’t
   be found anywhere.
 * 2. On my dashboard I don’t have a plugins option, no matter which theme I choose
   from the ones available.
 * Is this because my site is brand new (less than 24 hours) or should I be able
   to have access to these things already?
 * I am not very experienced with html or css, or any code at all, so please be 
   as specific as possible if you can help me! I’ve used a blog that was hosted 
   by hostgator before and never had these issues, so this is brand new to me.
 * Thank you!
 * **_[ Moderator note: Part of the topic title decapped. please do not use caps
   again, it is considered to be rude. ]_**

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/things-missing-on-dashboard-please-help/#post-6338479)
 * > my site is brand new (less than 24 hours)
 * – it can take anything from 24 – 72 hours for DNS/nameserver records to fully
   propagate
    – Every server is different, so ask your host

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## Tags

 * [missing plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missing-plugin/)
 * [self-hosted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/self-hosted/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/things-missing-on-dashboard-please-help/#post-6338479)
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