Display PHP Version
Displays the currently installed PHP/MySQL version in the "At a Glance" admin dashboard widget.
4.9(35 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Display PHP Version is a WordPress admin plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 35 reviews. It has been downloaded 500K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 10% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.9/535 reviews
30K+active installs
500K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Very lightweight and simple plugin that displays the currently installed PHP/MySQL version in the “At a Glance” admin dashboard widget.
In the latest plugin version you can also view the current MySQL version when hovering over the PHP version text. We chose to implement it this way as you may not need to know the MySQL version as often as the PHP version, and it just adds unnecessary visual noise.
Just hover over the PHP version label to display the installed MySQL version.
Also, on some Windows based servers the returned MySQL version can be displayed with a 5.5.5- prefix which can be a little annoying, so this is removed for convenience.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Best plugin for PHP version
by Gabriel Reguly·3 years ago·1 reply
Great option for quickly finding out which PHP version is being used.
Thank you for coding it.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Gabriel Reguly.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Gabriel Reguly.
A plugin to show a php version, really?
by theking2·3 years ago
This is such a waste of bytes I don’t know where to begin.
create a file info.php containing
<?php phpinfo();
and open it in your favorite browser. Seriously have you all gone plugin mad?
Great
by Michael Sutter·4 years ago
Lightwight, simple, awesome.
Works as described. Useful
by michaeltaiwan·4 years ago
In the section AT A GLANCE on the WP Dashboard, it shows PHP version and SQL version on hover:
Server running PHP version: 8.0.3. MySQL version: 5.7.33
Would be nice if it could warning us to UPGRADE PHP version when necessary
Does As Promised
by Miguel·4 years ago
There isn’t much to this plugin, but it does exactly what it promises in a clean and simple way that doesn’t require any hunting.
Download Trends
Today: 21Yesterday: 21This week: 162Period total: 13K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.8
77.5%
v1.7
11.1%
v1.5
8.9%
Other
2.5%
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Changelog
1.7 – May 7, 2021
- Fixed minor caching issue preventing PHP version displaying straight away (unless you did a hard browser refresh) when upgrading plugin from v1.5 to v1.6. This is fixed in v1.7.
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