It turns out the issue is one of expectations. I am new to WordPress and am only now understanding it’s mechanisms, in this case the whole plugin/code upload process. I’d expected to get a serial number and upgrade that way, i.e. put it in and unlock, the way most applications work these days. I see that WordPress really hasn’t outgrown it’s roots in early HTML. It is really old an clunky in basic organization… but perhaps some advantages to that too as you’re expected to get under the hood a bit more.
