How to check the number of new version?

  • Resolved gomex

    (@gomex)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I wanna make a script to check what is the new version of WordPress everytime.

    I have many wordpress installed in my job and some of these are outdated, so I wanna know which these I need request the update.

    When I finish it, I can release this here or in another place, if you want.

    I wanna know if there is a variable or another way to get this information, may be a string in webpage or something like that.

    Now I am making with this code

    wget http://wordpress.org/download
    cat index.html | grep latest= | awk -F= {‘print $3′} | awk -F\’ {‘print $1’}
    The return know is 2.8 (the latest version), but I am not sure if the WordPress.org will keep this way forever.

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    You can use these variables (defined in wp-includes/version.php).

    $wp_version = '2.8';
$wp_db_version = 11548;
$tinymce_version = '3241-1141';
$manifest_version = '20090610';

    Thread Starter gomex

    (@gomex)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Sorry MichaelH, but you didn’t understant me.

    I wanna know the latest version released by WordPress.org to compare with my installations.

    Did you get?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    You are looking at index.html and sometimes that doesn’t get updated, but wp-includes/version.php and $wp_version do get updated.

    Now you might look at wp-admin/includes/update.php to see how WordPress figures out if you need to upgrade or not.

    Sorry can’t offer more than that…

    Thread Starter gomex

    (@gomex)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    MichaelH,

    Sorry, but you realy didn’t understand me.

    I already can get if my wordpress is updated or not. I wanna now the latest version of wordpress.

    It should get in website of wordpress.org, not in my wordpress. Did you get it?

    Thank you for your help.

    incluye

    (@incluye)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Doesn’t it work already? You just said it was getting 2.8 from wordpress.org.

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Gomex i think you missed something..

    Now you might look at wp-admin/includes/update.php to see how WordPress figures out if you need to upgrade or not.

    WordPress essentially does a ‘check’ to see which is the current version, so take a look at how ‘WordPress’ does it…

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