Wordpress - Where does WordPress store version number?
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 /wp-includes/version.php
:
function getWPVersion() {
$path = '/path/to/wp-install';
include $path.'/wp-includes/version.php';
return $wp_version;
}
Wordpress Version Variables
There is more information available in that file:
$wp_version
- The WordPress version string ('3.1-RC3-17376')$wp_db_version
- Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema (17056)$tinymce_version
- The TinyMCE version string ('3393')$manifest_version
- Holds the cache manifest version ('20111113')$required_php_version
- Holds the required PHP version ('4.3')$required_mysql_version
- Holds the required MySQL version ('4.1.2')
The codex says its in wp-includes/version.php.
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'getWPVersion' );
function getWPVersion() {
echo $GLOBALS['wp_version'];
}