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WordPress Co-Founder Automates Software Updates to Free Users Co-founder and developer at Automatic Paul Hadley recently made public his decision to automate WordPress updates on all free plans by mid-year 2024. According to an email posted on the Internet Archive, Automatic’s intention is for these automated updates to occur in phases beginning late in 2023. The ultimate goal, stated by Mr. Hadley, is to provide every website user a better experience with fewer crashes and lower overall stress. This development suggests an exciting direction towards easier WordPress experiences, allowing developers to concentrate more on coding instead of worrying about software patches. Automatic also expressed that the plan was conceived due to growing pains felt when trying to keep users’ websites updated manually via FTP or Cpanel file transfers - time consuming practices where users frequently need help, hence requiring significant resources from the tech support teams involved. Automatic thus considers its users as well. It wants every individual using the platform without any chargeable subscriptions – all free and premium website builders - not suffer any frustration because their platforms get abandoned. WordPress software updates may also face an upcoming feature set for which many may wonder how it is to be done considering such complexity. Automatic developers state that several automated update scripts already have existed before but their deployment process was extremely manual at first, often time-consuming requiring lots of individual help every few weeks resulting in considerable human efforts invested manually updating each version across different users accounts respectively. As for what will occur later, users won’t see major upgrades like these because after completing them - free updates become automatic without any issues reported afterwards while continuing towards greater future advancements that don't affect overall quality standards either which would otherwise hinder usability and compatibility between updated and previous iterations alike – something all web development needs today since numerous sites face compatibility challenges due solely to manual upgrades causing inconsistencies affecting visitor interactions greatly.