How can I view my wordpress version? … AGAIN

Resolved nicole2292
(@nicole2292)

9 years, 8 months ago

Hello,

I know this question has been asked 1000 times before, however I still cannot find the answer I need.

How can I view the wordpress version when the site is not currently up to date (so the admin footer and upgrades page don’t show the version) and I don’t have access to the site files via ftp?

I have read https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/version-wordpress/ and none of these options are working for me.

As I mentioned I do not have access to the files on this occasion and the “generator” tag is not appearing the source code. I presume due to some security settings.

So how can I view the wordpress version in the admin or source code for a given site?

Why does it only say the new version in the footer and on the upgrades page? Wouldn’t it be more useful for everyone to say something like “current version x.x.x, update to y.y.y”?

Thanks,
Nicole

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Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

9 years, 8 months ago

Look at the bottom right corner of *any* page in the Dashboard, not just the upgrades page.

If it’s still not there, then please answer the following questions:

1. What is the URL of your site?

2. Why don’t you have FTP access?

3. Who is your hosting provider?

Learn WP Basics
(@learnwpbasics)

9 years, 8 months ago

I have always wondered about this as well 🙂

@nicole2292 –

If you do not have access to your file in this case, then you can try opening the readme.html file that is in the root of your WP install.

http://mywebsite.com/readme.html

@james Huff –

I just checked a 4.5.3 version on my local server and every page in the dashboard, in the bottom right corner, says ‘Get Version 4.6’

Cheers!
Lyle

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

9 years, 8 months ago

Ah, then they must have changed that after I stopped looking, thanks! 🙂

sitedoctor911
(@sitedoctor911)

9 years, 8 months ago

You can find the WordPress version number by looking in the readme.html file in the root of your WordPress installation. Sometimes the file is renamed by security software so you might have to access it via FTP if you can’t open it through your browser.

Thread Starter nicole2292
(@nicole2292)

9 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I had realised whilst lying in bed last night after writing this that I could simply visit http://www.mydomain.com/readme.html however this file is also not accessible due to being renamed by security software I think… I cannot access it in this manner on the site in question.

So is there ANY way at all to do this without ftp?

For 99% of sites I work on I have ftp however there is always the occasional situation when myself or others reading this forum do not have ftp access and it really should not be necessary for a task as simple as this.

Why isn’t the current version simply listing in the admin panel like it is when you are up to date?

I imagine this would be a 2 second coding task to add this to the core files in #footer-upgrade in wp-admin\admin-footer.php and the function core_update_footer()

Can someone at wordpress please make this change for the benefit of everyone in my situation and to prevent this question being asked over and over again?

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

9 years, 8 months ago

As requested previously, would you please answer the following questions:

1. What is the URL of your site?

2. Why don’t you have FTP access?

3. Who is your hosting provider?

The answers will have a bearing on the situation, as some managed hosts handle this differently.

Learn WP Basics
(@learnwpbasics)

9 years, 8 months ago

@nicole2292 –

The developer of this plugin created it for the very reason you (and I) ask! 🙂

Hope you can install plugins 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/version-info/

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

9 years, 8 months ago

Nice find @learnwpbasics !

Thread Starter nicole2292
(@nicole2292)

9 years, 8 months ago

Thanks, I’ll def. give it a go 🙂

P.S. Not sure why I couldn’t find that myself in my google yesterday but your find is much appreciated.

Thread Starter nicole2292
(@nicole2292)

9 years, 8 months ago

Hi James Huff,

Thanks for your assistance.

I am asking not just for one site. It was actually a group of 3 sites, for which I have recently taken over management, which prompted the question. However I am asking more in general as I manage hundreds of wordpress sites across numerous hosts and I think this is something which needs to be dealt with on a broader scale for the good of the community. I do not wish for you to resolve my issue just for my one site on one webhost, rather I wish for this to be resolved for the community as a whole so everyone in future can use the solution.

Thanks Learn WP Basics for providing a solution that can be applied to many different sites.

As for sharing the specific site URL (there are actually 3 sites this applies to and I do not have client permission to share this information) and webhost (I do not know this as I did not set up this hosting or these sites). Hence why I was after an more overall solution as opposed to assistance with one specific site.

Thanks again for your assistance 🙂

Best Regards,
Nicole

Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

9 years, 8 months ago

You’re welcome!
Stringalong
(@stringalong)

9 years, 7 months ago
I don’t understand much of this conversation. I don’t know whst ftp is. I don’t know what a plugin is, or whether I have any. I have not added any plug ins. I will answer James’ 3 questions:
. What is the URL of your site? traditionsstringband.net

2. Why don’t you have FTP access? As I said, I don’t know what this means.

3. Who is your hosting provider? I have no idea,and really don’t know what a hosting provider is.

Why is it so difficult to find the version? That’s so basic! And there are instruction books for many versions, so we need to know the version to use the instructions.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by Stringalong. Reason: typo correction