auto-upgrade & plugin dashboard

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  fluentinfrolicking · Member · Jan 13, 2012 at 6:50 am

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  I was looking at a friends wordpress dashboard and noticed that they have an option to autoupdate on the top of their dashboard. Also they have a plugin category on the left hand navigation bar. My dashboard has neither of these options. I thought maybe I am running an old version of wordpress. Could this be the case? Why can’t I auto upgrade? I am not the most tech savvy and the manual upgrade looked very confusing :( I do have the upgraded service to my site is fluentinfrolicking.com could that be part of the problem? what happens if I just download the latest version of wordpress from the website?

  Any help you have would be great. I have searched the forums but can’t find anything :(

  Thank you,
  Alexandra
  Blog url: http://fluentinfrolicking.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Jan 13, 2012 at 10:16 am

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  To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities. Please check out the following links to learn the differences.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  http://get.wp.com/

  There are no restrictions if you setup a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities. We have hosting recommendations at the following link if you are interested.