Tutorial: How to determine the Version Number of vanilla that you are using for your own forum.

peregrine

it can be found two ways.

1 via dashboard

learn how to identify the version of vanilla you are using and post the version in your question.

How to find version number

-  go to dashboard and look on the right hand side of the footer - the version is clearly displayed for you.

as you look at the footer at the bottom. here is an example ....

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2 or via code

• look in index.php in your forum directory

here are the lines of code at the top of index.php in your forum folder.

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Please include the version number of Vanilla you are using when posting a new discussion or asking a question on the forum.

Please do not say "latest version" (that would make you look foolish - now that you know how to find the exact number).

peregrine

bump. if only this Tutorial were an announcement in the categories section. it might help a few people.

@linc.

and the reasoning http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26710/why-adding-your-version-is-more-important-than-ever

to fix a Something has Gone Wrong screen.... see the link below.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/208629/#Comment_208629

peregrine

for plugins. just look in dashboard to see the version of plugin you have.

you can check version number of any plugin by looking in default.php or class.nameofplugin.plugin.php

where nameofplugin is the name of the plugin.

for vanilla 2.1

core add-ons are in

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/tree/2.1/plugins

other staff plugins are scattered and most are in:

https://github.com/vanilla/addons/tree/2.1 (which can be downloaded as a zip and individual plugins extracted or copied over to your forum).

it's not magic just look for version number in the plugin description, and compare against the one you have.

e.g. https://github.com/vanilla/addons/blob/master/plugins/Pockets/class.pockets.plugin.php#L15

The versioncheck plugin http://vanillaforums.org/addon/versioncheck-plugin will show you the most recent plugin added to

http://vanillaforums.org/addons

but VersionCheck plugin does not look in github or other repositories. that you need to check yourself, read the description, and see if it is compatible with your version of vanilla. Nor does it compare themes or applications or locales, only plugins.

also see:

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26703/plugins-themes-that-work-and-don-t-work-in-vanilla-2-1/p1

River

every version of vanilla also has a way to determine by looking in
index.php (pre 2.5) or
environment.php (2.5 and later) in the root folder.

2.4 and earlier versions.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/Vanilla_2.4b1/index.php#L16

2.5 or later viersions

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/Vanilla_2.5.1/environment.php#L19