themicksa

Sorry for the radio silence–attending to life’s other, less interesting, business. Just back to say thanks for putting me on the right road. I’ll go on tinkering when I can and now using a child theme, which seems like a very good idea. Much appreciated.

Awesome (and simple) indeed and Post Formats are now activated. Would I be right in assuming that I can go ahead and customize the css and other files in the WP version in the same way I had begun earlier. That’s to say there are no other major difference in structure or function between the two that I should be aware of?

Thank you both for the friendly help. I’m very impressed.

That looks like it could take me way in over my head–I’ll put my studying head on and see if I can make sense of it all.
Again, much obliged to you for your help.

Ahhh! I wasn’t aware there might be a distinction in functionality. Is there any simple way of copying or replicating those elements in the self-hosted version? I guess not, though I might be able to manage cobble together a couple of variations with my limited css skills. Would the main css sheet be the place to do that?
Sincere thanks for the enlightenment.

Well that would explain a lot except for the fact that the theme page at https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/manifest/ specifically refers to Post Formats while the support page here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/post-formats/
says that Manifest supports Standard, Aside, Gallery, Image, Link and Status formats.

Maybe I’m missing something …