Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#4796 closed enhancement (worksforme)

re-add WP version in Admin page footers

Reported by: Ozh Owned by: anonymous
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Administration Version:
Severity: trivial Keywords: admin footer version
Cc:

Description

The current 2.3-alpha has a cleaner admin footer, but it lacks IMO the WP version. Why? Because most users, once they've upgraded their blog:

  • check their front page to see if anything seems broken
  • check the version number showing in the Dashboard to be sure they're running the latest

(- jump around for joy because they were scared to update but after all it's been yet another painless upgrade)

Don't expect users to tell off their head what version they're running, they really need a place somewhere that shows their version number. Othewise I predict a lot of question in forums & #wordpress from users asking how to know what version they're currently having.

Change History (4)

comment:1   Ozh — 6 years ago

  • Keywords admin footer version added

comment:2   westi — 6 years ago

  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

The version is there as far as i can see.

The three alternative messages are:

  1. You are using a development version (2.3-alpha1). Cool! Please stay updated
  2. Your WordPress 2.x is out of date. Please update
  3. Version 2.x

Closing as WORKS FOR ME.

​http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/update.php#L5

comment:3   rob1n — 6 years ago

  • Milestone 2.3 (trunk) deleted

comment:4   westi — 6 years ago

This may have been caused by the bug identified in #4867

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