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Also, please reply to [email protected] (not the other emails), or if you must send it to one of the others, please let me know at [email protected] which one you sent it to. Thanks!

Damirk,
The plugin has been bought by another company, ELEX. Apparently, you need to get the update from them. I have the free version, if you do, you can go to: https://elextensions.com/plugin/elex-dynamic-pricing-and-discounts-plugin-for-woocommerce-free-version/. I’m not sure for the paid version, but contact them. They’re very helpful.
– Mike

Thanks for the replies! I am leaning more towards starting all over and building the site online. I am going to start another ticket because my questions are more in that direction than in the uploading direction. Thanks again!

Steve,
So, since I envision a long and tedious ordeal to learn how to write php (just for this one thing), it seems prudent for me to wait, publish the site. Then, taking advantage of the host’s increased file limits, upload my mp3s to the site (assuming, that when you build a site locally, you can still edit the site online (as I did when I built the site online)). Does that sound like a reasonable approach? Or, would you suggest something else?
Thanks!
– Mike

Steve,
Does this mean that when I transfer my local site to a hosted site, the file limits will automatically change to whatever the host’s limits are?
Thanks!
– Mike

Steve,
Thanks for the reply. I tried the first step, but it didn’t work. The other two tries looked a little too dangerous for me to try at my level of competence (beginner). I am building the site on my home computer. Would it be possible for me to complete the site and then, after getting it up and running online, ask my host if they can increase the size limit? Another question is why does my site that is online have a 10 MB limit while this one here at home has a 2 MB limit? They are both using the same WordPress theme.
Thanks!
– Mike

Thank you! That was exactly what I was missing! Now, I am up and running!
– Mike

Thanks, Steve! I just did that!
– Mike

Makes sense! Thanks again, you’ve been a great help!
– Mike

The fix worked! Thanks!
I had trouble getting into the site today, until I clicked on my WAMP icon on my desktop to, I guess, initialize WAMP before trying to open the site. Is that that standard operating procedure (initialize WAMP first)? Until this happened, I was wondering why even keep the WAMP icon on my desktop? I was thinking about deleting it.
Thanks again for all your help, Marcus!

Mateaus, I did what you said and it worked! Thanks! I still have problems though: I saved a temporary WordPress site and closed my browser. Now, I don’t know how to get back to the site to work on it. If I go to the green WAMP icon in my taskbar and to YourVirtualHosts/localhost, I get what looks like where I probably should go, but when I click on my project (which I called tempsite)I get a page that says: This site can’t be reached tempsite’s server IP address could not be found. I don’t know if this is the way to open the project or not, but if it is, something is still wrong. Can you possibly help?
Thanks again!
– Mike

Tor,
Even though you think I can do it on my computer, I think I’ll just buy another domain name and build the site there (I can tell the search bots not to crawl, right?). Then, like you suggest, I’ll pay someone to migrate it. I have recent experience building a WordPress site online (mikehenebry.com), so I won’t have to find, download and learn everything that is necessary to build the site on my own computer. By the way, the site I am replacing (upgrading) is bigbandtranscriptions.com.

Well, unless you have anything to add (or talk me out of), I think I’m good. I really appreciate your help! Tack s? hemskt mycket!

Tor,
Thanks, again, for the help! Yes, I have Windows on my home computer. It sounds like I should not try to build the site on it.

When you say “If you move to a new URL,” I just want to be sure you understand that I intend to leave my web site at its current URL (I just want to change it to a WordPress platform). Do you think I can handle these “301-Moved permanently’s” myself, (remember, I’m an idiot) or should I just find a local pro to handle the whole migration (and I think I know one)? I don’t mind paying a few hundred dollars if it improves the odds of getting it done properly.

Tor,

I should have pointed out that I am a novice. So, I didn’t follow everything you said. For example, I don’t know what it meant when you said: “lower the TTL on the name server, so that when you point it towards the new server…” If you can dumb that down a bit, I’d appreciate it! Also, that running WAMP/XAMPP/MAMP on my own system isn’t trivial kind of scares me. So, I would lean towards buying another domain address, building the new site there and then moving the new site to my old domain IP address. Is that a safe thing to do and not risk losing my established SEO rankings? How would you word a search that I should use in Google to find articles on that process? Thanks!

Blade,
So, you’re saying the search engine bots won’t panic when they run across my new site? Do you think redirects are a good idea too, or just skip them? I have a backup plugin and an SSL certificate (is that a security plugin?). Thanks for your help!
– Mike