Installing custom themes

Do i have to buy a certain package to use custom themes that I purchased from another site? Or can I upload other themes to my wordpress on the free version?

I believe you will have to move your site from wordpress.com and have a self-hosted www.ads-software.com site to do that.

Also, could anyone tell me how to make it so a domain name I bought can be used as the wordpress url, instead of “example.wordpress.com”?

I recently paid to register a domain name at wordpress.com, and I think I then only had to remove the wordpress.com part from its address…and then I could actually access the site either way (with either address), as I recall.
note: Then I also soon made it a www.ads-software.com site.

Lastly, do I have to install wordpress to my computer to make these changes? or can I make them via logging into the website.

After moving your site to self-hosting (such as at BlueHost or any other server that works well with WordPress), you can use any WordPress Theme or Child Theme of your own choosing…and there are various ways to modify Child Themes. Some folks know how to do that right there at their own computers and with the WordPress core running, I believe, but I do that at the site via FTP.

@chris – this may be helpful in the differences between .COM and .ORG – it’s a bit confusing ?? !

https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

You don’t need to install anything on your local computer to use WordPress (which is on a server) via a browser – but you can install WP on your local computer — see this:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer

But local installs are not accessible on the internet – only on that computer – so they are usually just used for development purposes.

Thank you very much for the quick replies!

@wpyogi – Do i need to host my www.ads-software.com download? Because when I attempt to install it using install.php, nothing happens.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Getting_Started_with_WordPress

you will need a host to host your site when you want to use the www.ads-software.com software – unless you want to work only locally on your computer.

Thank you alchymyth, I’ll have a long look through that.

I have a domain name already registered to a host, and my package only allows one domain to be hosted.

Is it possible to host my wordpress site on that package, and have the wordpress site as my current domain name?

Thanks in advance.

I have a domain name already registered to a host, and my package only allows one domain to be hosted.

Is it possible to host my wordpress site on that package, and have the wordpress site as my current domain name?

I first had a self-hosted www.ads-software.com site at BlueHost, then I got a wordpress.com site before I had realized I can have as many sites as I wish at BlueHost without having to pay more. After learning about that, I moved my wordpress.com site (my second site) over to BlueHost.

The fee you paid to a domain registrar does not tie you to any server, but you do have to wait 60 days before moving the domain name to a different registrar (such as I will eventually do at BlueHost) even thought you can re-point you domain to a self-hosted server right now (without waiting) so you can begin doing anything you wish with themes and such at your own self-hosted site (that will then no longer be a wordpress.com site even thought the domain registration must remain there for a while).

Edit: I just realized you might have purchased some type of premium service at wordpress.com…and I know nothing about what you can or cannot do with that.