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The Version Info plugin helps you track essential version information for your WordPress install by displaying key system details such as WordPress version, PHP version, Web Server type, and MySQL version. This can be displayed in three areas:
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<li>Admin footer – Displays WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and Web Server versions in the footer for quick reference.</li>
<li>WP-Admin Bar – Optionally add version details to the top WP-Admin bar for instant visibility while navigating the admin area.</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – Activate the dashboard widget via the Screen Options to quickly view your site’s version information.</li>
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Key features of this plugin include:
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<li>Shows the current WordPress version. If a new version is available, it will display the current version alongside the latest available version in the footer, with a link to update.</li>
<li>Displays the PHP version running on your server, making it easy to verify if your site meets compatibility requirements for plugins and themes.</li>
<li>Shows the Web Server type and version, whether you’re using Apache, Nginx, or another server setup.</li>
<li>Includes the MySQL version to help you track the database version your WordPress site uses.</li>
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<h4>Why use this Plugin?</h4>
Ever wondered which version of WordPress or PHP your site is running? This plugin ensures you have that critical information at a glance.
Whether you’re a site administrator, developer, or someone managing a WordPress site, knowing your software versions is crucial for troubleshooting, compatibility checks, and ensuring optimal performance.
For developers, this plugin is an invaluable tool. When clients report an issue, they can quickly send you the version details of their setup by simply sharing a screenshot of their admin footer or copying the information. This makes diagnosing issues easier, as you’ll immediately know which version of WordPress, PHP, and MySQL they are using, along with the web server information.

Version Info | Show WP, PHP, MySQL & Web Server Versions in Admin Dashboard

This plugin is just as much as it has to be. Couldn't have written it better ;)

Simple, but very useful

Easily display the current WP, PHP, Web Server, and MySQL versions in the WP-Admin Footer, Admin bar, or as a widget in screen options.

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CPU performance testing: 
This plugin does various calculations and string manipulations on your PHP webserver 
and your MySQL database server. To further test the MySQL server, a sequence of MySQL 
inserts, selects, updates and deletes are performed in a separate custom database table 
(we do not use your WordPress tables for this).
Network testing: 
The network is tested by fetching directly from Google’s CDN / apis network. Fetching from the Google 
apis network gives you the nearest server, and will give more accurate results. We also fetch a small 1Mb 
file from our servers as well in case the Google apis is down. The network tests are not yet shown in the 
graphs, we are working on this 🙂
Results: 
After the sequence of tests has finished, the results will be displayed for you to evaluate. MySQL results can 
vary depending on the type of connection your webserver has to the MySQL server. If a “local socket” connection 
is used a typical result for the MySQL query test is 0.05-0.25 seconds. Web hosting providers with dedicated MySQL 
servers will show a slower time/queries per second, as a TCP/IP connection to the MySQL server is made instead of 
a local socket connection.
There are many factors that will determine how fast your website will run. This plugin does not test 
for how many hits/requests per second your provider allows to your website, file system performance is not tested 
either. Use it as a performance test to assess how fast a CPU your provider has allocated to your webserver 
and your MySQL database backend.
Share with your friends, let’s start a competition and see who’s got the fastests servers (hint) 🙂

PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics

Benchmarks PHP and MySQL and does various performance analysis on these. Especially MySQL analysis is good.

In general benchmarks are short, but quite informative.

Works well and does various important tests

I had to measure the performance of my two local machines (a laptop and a desktop). This plugin came in handy to do exactly that. I only wish that there was a way to export the results for future ref!

Handy

With the performance test plugin you can test the CPU and MySQL speed on your webserver and your MySQL server.

Version Info | Show WP, PHP, MySQL & Web Server Versions in Admin Dashboard vs PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics