see: http://clark-technet.com/2010/12/wordpress-self-hosted-plugin-update-api Basically the idea is to hook your update checking function to the pre_set_site_transient_update_themes filter. The version array key you return from this function will be compared by WP to the current theme version from style.css…. Use the admin_notices action to make your alert message more noticeable
After further Googling I was able to come across a site that explains how to achieve this. http://www.virendrachandak.com/techtalk/how-to-remove-wordpress-version-parameter-from-js-and-css-files/ The second function on the page is quite helpful. This looks for “ver=” and checks that it matches the WordPress version number and then removes it. The first function on the page removes all version numbers from … Read more
WordPress APIs usually refer to group of functions and concepts and are not versioned. Any versions refer to WP itself (or in some cases to bundled components, developed by third parties such as jQuery). In WordPress version 2.8 creating widgets was refactored from older code (which you shouldn’t care about) to newer class-based code (which … Read more
What I found to work for me was to remove the action within the foreach ending with the following code function pmc_gallery_menu_order_fix($id) { $regex_pattern = get_shortcode_regex(); preg_match (“https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”.$regex_pattern.’/s’, stripslashes($_POST[‘content’]), $regex_matches); if ($regex_matches[2] == ‘gallery’) : $attribureStr = str_replace (” “, “&”, trim ($regex_matches[3])); $attribureStr = str_replace (‘”‘, ”, $attribureStr); $attributes = wp_parse_args ($attribureStr); endif; $ids … Read more
Like you said, downgrading would be a bad practice and is not at all recommended. Please make a backup of your database before continuing, just to play safe. It looks like you’ve only replaced wp-admin folder. WordPress updates are not limited to wp-admin folder. Try replacing wp-admin, wp-includes and all those files in the root … Read more
Stable release of WP is the one meant for production. Any serious issues (such as security) are addressed via minor releases. Some of the fixes for not that serious issues can be received ahead of schedule with Hotfix plugin. Non-stable versions are usually run by WordPress developers for the sake of experimentation and early access … Read more
It’s use? I believe Automattic (and others) use it to generate stats on WP deployment worldwide, similar to Joomla and other CMSes. But a lot of the reason people may ‘hate’ it is because of mis-education. It is a fallacy that it is a security risk. What is a security risk is not keeping your … Read more
When a major release is made, fixes are made to it, but it’s rare that fixes to older versions are made. It has happened before, but it should never be relied upon, and there are a lot of bugfixes that are never backported. Sometimes a version will be tagged before a major release that isn’t … Read more
go to your wp-admin dash board there in the Right Now box you will be able to see the currently installed version of your wordpress installation. as shown in this picture below
Depending on your environment, you could backup all your core files (given you haven’t hacked them) and the DB. It’s also a good idea to backup your beta. Next, switch over – if it’s production to live for client / public, do it during a time that traffic is lowest, assuming you track your traffic. … Read more