{"id":2470,"date":"2018-06-29T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2018-06-29T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:08:24","slug":"check-wordpress-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/check-wordpress-version\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check your current WordPress Version"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of easy method to check the WordPress version is from your WordPress Dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Login to WordPress Admin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From &#8216;Dashboard&#8217; Section<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the top of the page, you can find a section named <strong>&#8216;At a Glance&#8217;<\/strong>, where it provides the WordPress version of your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1919\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance.png\" alt=\"find WordPress version, from dashboard\" class=\"wp-image-2574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance.png 1919w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance-1024x488.png 1024w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance-768x366.png 768w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance-1536x732.png 1536w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/at_the_glance-1568x747.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If\u00a0 &#8216;At a Glance&#8217; section is hidden,<br\/>on the top right of the page click on &#8216;<strong>Screen Options<\/strong>&#8216; and check &#8216;At a Glance&#8217; option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at any WordPress admin page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. And at the bottom right corner, we can find the WordPress version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another best way to view the current version with small description, release note link is from <strong>\/wp-admin\/about.php<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">example.com\/wp-admin\/about.php<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1286\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wp_updates.png\" alt=\"check wordpress latest versions\" class=\"wp-image-3395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wp_updates.png 1286w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wp_updates-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wp_updates-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wp_updates-768x354.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/>\n\t<figcaption>latest release notes<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using WordPress functionality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;get_bloginfo&#8217; retrieves the information about the current WordPress website. By using &#8216;version&#8217; parameter we get the WordPress current Version.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>get_bloginfo('version');<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of easy method to check the WordPress version is from your WordPress Dashboard. Login to WordPress Admin From &#8216;Dashboard&#8217; Section On the top of the page, you can find a section named &#8216;At a Glance&#8217;, where it provides the WordPress version of your website. If\u00a0 &#8216;At a Glance&#8217; section is hidden,on the top right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holithemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}