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There are pretty clear reminders. If you log into the Wordpress control panel, there's a bar that says "The latest version is x. Click here to upgrade." And the

by gchucky 17y ago

There are pretty clear reminders. If you log into the Wordpress control panel, there's a bar that says "The latest version is x. Click here to upgrade." And they also built an automated update script that downloads, unpacks and installs it all for you. My guess is that people don't update because they fear potentially breaking their styles or something.

philwelch 17y ago
If you make a small change to the style you're using, it gets overwritten on each update as long as it's a built-in style. The workaround is obvious (rename your changed style) but, as an example, I have always been too lazy to do this and I'm always behind the latest version.
- photomatt 17y ago
  You should check out "child theme" functionality, which allows you to make lazy changes to the style without modifying any core files, which is highly recommended against.
  - philwelch 17y ago
    You're probably right, but if Wordpress checked out "automatically branching a child theme every time I use the interface Wordpress itself provides me with to modify core files" functionality, it would be more usable.
    - photomatt 17y ago
      I agree! This is on the roadmap.