I’m trying to upgrade the site. With luck, you won’t be able to see any difference, but it’ll work better. Upgrading is another word for “it may not be working the way it should.” Hang in there. I’ll have it up and working. Eventually. With the help of someone who knows what he’s doing, because I don’t.
Notes from the U.K.
Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
Notes from the U.K. 
Hi Ellen,
I am sorry but I could not read the post because the link takes me to a page which says, ” Sorry,—” .
Susie
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Good luc….(just went dead) ;-)
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This gets the best comment award.
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LOL thanks. Your post inspired me. ;-)
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Good luck with that one. ☺ Van
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And there we’re suddenly back on .com :-)
Self-hosted sites are more complicated than they appear at first. WordPress.com actually takes care of a lot of stuff one has to do oneself on a self-hosted site.
Regarding what you said about mobile sites in the post on the other blog: I use the same theme as you and it is mobile compatible. But you can also activate the standard WordPress.com mobile theme which will show for people with older phones if your main site doesn’t work correctly for them. You do that under Appearance ->Mobile in the dashboard.
And regarding your comment that hopefully this will fix everything: if it doesn’t, maybe this will…
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You’re wonderful. I turned it on and said yes to everything, even though I haven’t a clue if it’s all a good idea.
Great link.
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So what did you actually do: upgrade to premium? Or go self-hosted? I recently chatted to someone from WordPress support, as I am curious about self-hosting, but don’t want to lose my followers or have to do everything from scratch myself, simply because I can’t. So that bloke assured me that everything would remain the same, even my followers would be automatically transferred to the self-hosted blog. I would still be able to use the same themes etc, but the only difference it would make to me would be that I would be able to use advanced options like plug-ins. Not that I know what a plug-in is, of course.
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I shifted to self-hosting. And all of that is what I thought was going to happen, only that’s not the way it was working. I’m sure if I’d stayed with it (and known what I was doing, or been willing to hang in there with someone who does) it was all fixable, but honestly, I’m not sure the advantages I was chasing after were worth the grief. I’ll leave self-hosting to the experts from now on.
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Oh? And what happened to the self-hosted site?
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Posts weren’t reaching anyone. And my followers seemed to have disappeared. Smaller things were an annoyance (I couldn’t find a way to put a Like button on the comments–that level of thing), but those were the big ones. Again, I’m sure it was solvable, but when our techie friend and I sat down to re-evaluate it, we agreed that it wasn’t worth it.
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Right… There I see my hopes of going self-hosted quickly making their way out of the window!!
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Where they’ll fall on top of mine and have a soft landing.
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At least they’ll keep each other company.
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