How can I view my wordpress version? … AGAIN

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?

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.

https://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

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

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.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I had realised whilst lying in bed last night after writing this that I could simply visit https://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?

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.

@nicole2292 –

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

Hope you can install plugins ??

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/version-info/

Nice find @learnwpbasics !

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.

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

You’re welcome!

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 8 years, 4 months ago by Stringalong. Reason: typo correction