I checked my email early yesterday morning and saw this snuggled in the Inbox:
A surprising entry in my email inbox!
History happened while I wasn’t looking! For the first time ever, one of my WordPress installations updated without any attention from me.
I clicked that email in my Inbox listing, and sure enough…
Panting Hart, leaping from 3.7 to 3.7.1
So without any action on my part, my devotional blog churned through the WordPress Maintenance Release into 3.7.1 — nice!
I logged into Panting Hart and was greeted with this:
Blog Splash Screen Notice
It truly was while I slept!
Though I prefer to maintain control over my sites, I welcome these automatic, background updates to WordPress. Thankfully, major updates aren’t included in this. For instance, December’s projected 3.8 upgrade we’ll still have to do manually.
Again, a huge thumbs-up to WordPress. (And you’re blogging using another platform…why? 😆 )
After scanning through the various TOS (“Terms of Service,” you know), I decided to go for it. Then I hesitated again when I saw this was free for now only and might cost me something later. But I kept on going.
Then Google required my cell phone number. Required! 😯 Read it all