WORDPRESS: Get your plugin version number 'n things
A quick and dirty "get plugin version number" example, borrowed from these guys: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/18268/i-want-to-get-a-plugin-version-number-dynamically
A method like this will always be available. Unlike the admin only get_plugin_data() (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_plugin_data)
function get_fi_mi_plugin_version(){
if(preg_match('/version:[\s\t]+?([0-9.]+)/i',file_get_contents( __FILE__ ), $v)){
return $v[1];
}
return "";
}
Naturally, your regex '/version:[\s\t]+?([0-9.]+)/i' may vary. Depends on how your header comments are laid out. I typically do this:
/*
Plugin Name: WP Plugin
Plugin URI: somewhere.com
Description: Something something plugin header
Version: 6.6.6
Author: some idiot
Author URI: somewhere.com
License: Creative Commons 'n things
*/
