WordPress Updates seem to have improved greatly over time. Within the last year, automatic updates were integrated into WordPress by use of FTP Server Support.
A while ago (over a year now), I made a blog post that explained my dislike for WordPress updates. At that time, when I was doing manual updates, nearly each time I upgraded something would just go wrong. It wasn’t the kind of wrong that went something like: “Oh. Oops, let me click the ‘Revert’ button…”; it was, “Oh [shoot]! It’s all gone!”
One could see how this would be frustrating.
WordPress later released support for automatic updates. Whenever a new update becomes present, WordPress informs you and explains that it is able to do a manual install. Just provide your FTP server’s login and password as well as location, and hit “Upgrade”. It’s done. Even better, this same feature is capable of installing plugins the exact same way.
Frequent visitors here know how I like to praise good work and give credit to web applications that I use as well as plugins, and this is yet another one:
Great Job, WordPress Development Team.
