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Created January 25, 2014 09:50
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This PHP function will return your wordpress version. It uses grep to search in /wp-includes/version.php since the wordpress version is not stored in the database (only the db_version is).
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get_wp_version.php
function get_wp_version( $wp_folder ) {
preg_match("/'(.*?)'/", exec( "grep wp_version ".$wp_folder."/wp-includes/version.php" ), $matches);
return $matches[1];
}
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