I decided to take the plunge and switch from WordPress 3.6.1 to the 3.7 beta 2 version. There’s a plugin that is supposed to make this easy – WordPress Beta Tester – but the current 0.97 version of this doesn’t seem to work.

Fortunately, I found a posting on the support forum that suggests that you can use the 0.96 version. It’s at: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-updating-from-361-to-37-41 I did these steps:

• Back up my database (I’ve been using the free UpdraftPlus)
• Download WordPress Beta Tester 0.96 to my computer
• Use the Plugins > Add new and find the link on that page to upload the file
• Activate the plugin
• WordPress immediately detects that a new version (the 3.7 beta) is available
• Let the installation proceed
• Presto! It’s working

The 3.7 beta’s are supposed to check daily for new versions. I now have WordPress 3.7-beta2-25801 – I’ll find out tomorrow if it worked…