What Version of WordPress a Site is Running

You probably have come across a website that is running on WordPress or what to find out if the Website is running on WordPress and what version.

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The following basic tutorial will help guide you on how to find out or tell what version of WordPress a certain website is running on.

To determine what version a WordPress site is running on, you should follow the following steps:

1) Viewing on the Source Code

Step 1:

Open the website and allow the website to load fully.

Step 2:

Look at the source code of the website, you can do this by right clicking and choosing ‘view page source’ or the shortcut for windows is CTR + U

Step 3:

Press CTR + F and paste ‘meta name’ you should see :

<meta name=”generator” content=

followed by the version of WordPress that the website is running on.

2) WordPress Include Folder

In most cases savvy WordPress developers will edit the Meta name generator or use plugins that do that to avoid vulnerabilities. When you look at the source code you will not see WordPress version a website is running.

Another way you can know the version of WordPress a website is running is through wp- includes folder in the WordPress installation root.

Look in wp-includes/version.php

/**

* The WordPress version string

*

* @global string $wp_version

*/

$wp_version = ‘2.8.4’;

3) Using this website what is my WordPress version

You can simply copy and paste the URL of the website you want to find what version of WordPress is running and place enter. This is a free tool but does not work for WordPress version 3.6 and above.

It is important to continually update the WordPress version of your blog to eliminate security vulnerabilities

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How to find out What Version of WordPress a Site is Running