Easy question. Where does the self-hosted WordPress store version information? 3 s 3 If you need to get the wordpress version in your script, there is a global variable: $wp_version (right now it’s something like ‘3.1-RC3-17376’) It contains the wordpress version. If you need to acquire if from a file, you can read it from … Read more
I’ve got a number of plug-in’s hosted on the wordpress.org svn server … with the immenent release of 3.1, I would like to update the “Tested up to” meta data. There will be no functional changes to the code, just the meta data. Is it necessary to change the revision number for such a trivial … Read more
Given that I can’t access the dashboard/admin pages on my blog (that’s a future question), and that I have shell access to my hosting server, can I find out the current version of WordPress from the command line? I tried grepping for the string ‘@since’ in all the php files in the top level directory … Read more
Today milestone 3.3.3 was completed – five days after version 3.4. I have seen the same with milestone 3.2.2 which was never released. WordPress does not offer any long term support as Matt once explained. See also: Will there be security updates for 3.1 once 3.2 is released? 3.3.3 is a security backport – somewhat … Read more
Given a copy of WordPress installation, how do I find out what version it is from the source code? 2 You can find the version in wp-includes/version.php, the $wp_version variable. It can also be found in the readme.html file in the root of the WordPress folder.
When developing a plugin, is there a way to automatically determine the minimum version of WordPress that’s required to run it? I want to make sure that the Requires header is accurate, but manually checking every time I call a new core function is tedious and error-prone. I’m thinking a script could figure it out … Read more
