Export WordPress.com as a WordPress theme (.zip)

What WordPress.com does and does not export

WordPress.com is the hosted flavour of WordPress with limited theme control, and you cannot install custom themes on lower plans, so designs are stuck. Even where an export exists, it hands you raw files rather than the specific structure WordPress expects — a theme header, a stylesheet WordPress recognises, and templates that render.

Anatomy of a valid WordPress theme

WordPress will only accept a .zip containing a theme folder with a metadata header, an entry template, and correctly referenced assets. That structure is what a hand port spends most of its time producing.

• A theme folder with a recognisable name
• A stylesheet carrying the theme header
• An entry template that renders the page
• Relative asset paths that survive the upload

Producing the .zip from a rendered page

Themify writes that structure for you. It reads the fully painted page at your *.wordpress.com address or mapped domain, rewrites every asset reference to a local path, and packages the result.

1. Open the page you want to convert in Chrome.
2. Click the Themify extension icon in the toolbar.
3. Press Generate theme and wait for the capture to finish.
4. In wp-admin, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
5. Upload the .zip, activate it, and the page is live on WordPress.

Checking the export before you ship

Install the theme on a staging site first. Confirm fonts load, images resolve, and interactive elements still respond. Because the capture includes the rendered block theme output and global styles, most issues come from assets that were behind a login rather than from the conversion itself.