version

WordPress plugins are version-based. You receive updates in your admin dashboard as soon as a new version update for a plugin is available. For some plugins you might feel like the previous version was better than the current one. And then you may want to rollback the version changes for that specific plugin. Same thing has happened to me when I updated one of the regularly used plugins on my sites. Its not that I got dissatisfied with the plugin. It was just a feature that bothered me for a whi...

WordPress functions wp_enqueue_script / wp_register_script and wp_enqueue_style / wp_register_style add additional version info in the end of the JavaScript and CSS files you link (include or add) using these functions. This version info is important to ensure that the correct version of the file is sent to the browser regardless of caching. Below screenshot explains how a version number appears in WordPress enqueued scripts and styles, see the highlighted part: Preventing WordPress to add vers...

WordPress automatically adds its current Version number to the head section of the themes. If you view the source of a WordPress-based website, you may find out the WordPress version it is using. Below given is the meta tag that carries that version information and can be spotted when you right-click and view source of a WordPress site: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 4.3.1" /> This extra information about CMS version is added by WordPress itself in order to ke...