Free to Premium

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    aliciahenderson94 · Member ·

    Hi everyone!

    I’m starting off with a free account with wordpress to see if it’s worth it before upgrading to premium.
    I know the “free” account is basically just a blog. So I was wondering when I upgrade, will all my progress be automatically updated?
    An example being, I noticed for contact forums, the forum is prefilled out with all of my information (not coming up blank).
    I’m just hoping that once I have my website almost complete with pages, I wont have to go back and change everything manually and basically start again.

    Thank you!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Nothing will be lost when upgrading to Premium. WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

    See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.
    Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
    Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/

    Note that each upgrade applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed. Also note that upgrades must be paid in full at the time of purchase. There are no discounts offered based on age, non-profit status, circumstances any other discriminatory factors.

    You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Dashboard> Store > My Upgrades

    Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History

    Your options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

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    timethief · Member ·

    I know the “free” account is basically just a blog. … I’m just hoping that once I have my website almost complete with pages, I wont have to go back and change everything manually and basically start again.

    A blog is a website.

    A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

    What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

    Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

    Here’s a link to my step by step post too http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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