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# eawohnet

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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you install themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-install-themes/)
 *  [eawohnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eawohnet/)
 * (@eawohnet)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-install-themes/#post-1408357)
 * I figured it out…via the “upload tab” where gangleri specified, I uploaded the
   zip file (single file) that I downloaded. I looked back at the GoDaddy FTP and
   the window that pops up only allows you to upload one file at a time (not folders).
 * Still, it was disappointing to find that wordpress.org had many fewer themes 
   loaded already to choose from, and that the popular theme I found on wordpress.
   com had to be downloaded then uploaded manually. This seems to be a recurring
   theme…I thought this switch was supposed to make it easier, but it seems to be
   the opposite so far.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Best theme for static website (not blog)??](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-theme-for-static-website-not-blog/)
 *  [eawohnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eawohnet/)
 * (@eawohnet)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-theme-for-static-website-not-blog/#post-1405652)
 * MicDK: Do you mind sharing what you found that might work? I’m trying to do the
   exact same thing and having problems.
 * Micah: Do you have any tips on removing the sidebar/comments completely? Link
   to a good walk-through? I’ve tried to find these, but most are very vague or 
   way too technical for me.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [How do you install themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-install-themes/)
 *  [eawohnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eawohnet/)
 * (@eawohnet)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-install-themes/#post-1408350)
 * After you extract the zip file, it’s an entire folder with 45-50 files–not a 
   single file. As far as I can tell, you can’t use an FTP to upload an entire folder
   at one time. I uploaded a theme file-by-file and it seemed to work, but now the
   appearance is clearly more messy than the theme looks on wordpress.com.
 * Am I overlooking something huge here? Is there one magic file that’s all you 
   need to upload? Is there a way to upload the entire folder at one time in an 
   FTP client (I’m using the GoDaddy file manager)?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Using WordPress.com theme with WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpresscom-theme-with-wordpressorg/)
 *  [eawohnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eawohnet/)
 * (@eawohnet)
 * [16 years, 2 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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