Purchasing a Premium Theme
If you are a Premium or Business user, premium themes can be switched as many times as desired and cost no extra money. But you also can purchase premium individually without the requirement of upgrading into Premium or Business Plan.
Premium Themes is the upgrade of WordPress.com beautiful & amazing themes. You will have intricate design, wonderful options for customization, and also exclusive support from the creators of the themes if you purchase Premium Themes.
Where to Find a Premium Theme
Premium Themes can be found and previewed in the following positions: on WordPress.com Showcase & right in WordPress.com homepage.
On Theme Showcase, detailed information about specific features of each theme are offered with a link to a demo site for you to cruise through it and have opinion about it. Current themes of Premium Themes can be found here
All of the Premium Themes in your homepage can be found at Themes by selecting Premium when you open the drop down menu.
How to get a Premium Theme
You can activate a Premium theme with no difference from this action with a Free one. Go to Themes from your homepage menu, choose Premium link. A grid of all the available Premium themes will be displayed here:
You can try the preview of every themes by selectingPreview Try & Customize. You will see Purchase button at the top, and an upgrade screen will show up in which the theme can be purchased.
You are able to purchase and activate from WordPress.com Theme Showcase if you are browsing there. You can choose which of your sites that you want to apply the theme. If you want the same theme is applied for many blogs, you will need to purchase the theme for each blog.
Your purchased theme will be available with the lifetime of your blog. Sometimes, a Premium theme can be retired because of outdated visual of functionally standpoint. In case that happens, you still can utilize that theme for as long as you want, but once you switch to a different theme, you will not able to change back to the previous theme anymore. WordPress.com always has newer and nicer themes for you to choose for your sites.
Note: Premium Themes which are set up for WordPress.com use just cannot be transferred to self-hosted site WordPress.com. Some of the Automatic-developed Premium themes might be transferred to a self-hosted site at no cost, as indicated in Guided Transfer. You can ask in Premium theme forum if you want to know if your themes are qualified or not.
You will have a full refund up to 30 days if a Premium theme does not work out. You can use Cancel button on Purchases page if you want to cancel your purchase and receive a refund. You can switch to any other Premium theme or one of other interesting themes anytime.
Along with Premium themes, more and more Free themes are still being added by time.
Premium Theme Support
When purchasing a Premium Theme, you can have not only distinctive features and gorgeous design but also a full access to the support for the creators of the themes on WordPress.com forum. In here, you might find wonderful tips to customize your theme. No one but the owner of the site who purchased a Premium theme can post and reply there, although the answers and questions is viewable for everyone.
