Title: determining WordPress version
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# determining WordPress version

 *  Resolved [myinstinctwaswrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myinstinctwaswrong/)
 * (@myinstinctwaswrong)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/determining-wordpress-version/)
 * is there a file in the wordpress directory (or sub-directory) that I can read
   that will tell me what the current version of WP is?
 * The footer at the bottom of the admin pages just says “Get WordPress 2.6.2” but
   that doesn’t help me know what version is currently running.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/determining-wordpress-version/#post-859534)
 * Yeah, I agree: one message at the top shouold be enough and the devs should have
   left the version number unaltered at the bottom. It was a not-so-wise decision…
 * Anyway, /wp-includes/version.php
 *  Thread Starter [myinstinctwaswrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myinstinctwaswrong/)
 * (@myinstinctwaswrong)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/determining-wordpress-version/#post-859536)
 * thanks – and yeah – they could have just said something like “This is WordPress
   version 2.6.1, please upgrade to 2.6.2”

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [myinstinctwaswrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myinstinctwaswrong/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/determining-wordpress-version/#post-859536)
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