Thank you.
After several attempts the update has completed - I did enable debug mode but the first couple of times there was neither an update nor errors so i can only presume that the connection was at fault. I did ultimately get a notification in my themes panel that said (WordPress could not...
Am I able to set up two sites on the one hosting account? What I should like to do is to set up one Wordpress site (in existence) and add s second Moodle site then link the two. These will only be experimental to become acquainted with running an LMS in conjunction with a CMS.
The current version of Wordpress is 4.8 but my site is presently running on 4.4.2 All attempts to run automatic updates from the Dashboard fail with no errors. Is automatic updating possible or do I have to achieve this manually via FTP?