It wasn’t until just today that I felt confident enough to use the WordPress automatic upgrade for my self-hosted blog. I’ve been reluctant in the past due to reported problems, and have stuck to doing it manually. I’ve done it manually so many times that I can almost do it in my sleep.

This morning I bit the bullet and decided to give it a try. I did a complete backup of my entire site via the backup wizard in my account cPanel, deactivated all my plugins and hit the button. Five seconds later the upgrade from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5 was finished. I reactivated my plugins and all is well.

A big thanks to the AutoMATTic team for this feature. Now if only Joomla would take a page from AutoMATTic’s playbook and add this feature.