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Image Gallery Block · Version history

Image Gallery Block changelog and version history

Latest version
2.4.2
Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago)
Releases
24
since 2022
In the last year
14
about one every 27 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20225 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20255 releases
  • 202612 releases

202612 releases

  1. Image Gallery Block 2.4.2Latest

    • Security: Fixed stored XSS through javascript: gallery item links.

  2. Image Gallery Block 2.4.1

    • Update: Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.5.
    • Fix: After activating the plugin, the page no longer says you are not allowed to access it. The Freemius opt-in now opens first, then the first page of the plugin.
    • Fix: The Freemius opt-in for Image Gallery now opens its own dashboard instead of an error page.
    • Fix: Code checked with the WordPress.org Plugin Check. Output escaping and form data notes are cleaned up.

  3. Image Gallery Block 2.4.0

    • New (Pro): Media Highlights — Facebook-style story albums that group your photos and videos into swipeable, autoplay stories with a full-screen story viewer. Available in the Pro version.
    • New — reusable galleries and a shortcode. There is now an Image Gallery post type: build a gallery once, publish it, and place it with [image_gallery id=123] anywhere a shortcode works — a widget, a page-builder row, a theme template, or six different pages at once. Edit the gallery and every copy…
    • New: the gallery screen keeps the block editor even on a site where the block editor has been switched off — by the Classic Editor plugin, a “Disable Gutenberg” plugin, or a theme option. The gallery builder IS a block, so on the classic editor that screen was an empty box with no way to build anyt…
    • New — four ready-made sections. The block used to arrive from the inserter as three albums with no photographs in them: three empty cards. Four patterns now ship under Image Galleries in the inserter: Photo album grid, Polaroid photo wall, Portfolio showcase and Product lookbook.
    • Each arrives finished — heading, copy, columns, gaps, card height and typography already set for the job, with albums that already have photographs in them. Both free styles are used, so Default and Polaroid are discoverable by inserting a section rather than by reading the settings panel.
    • Fixed: the copy-to-clipboard helper for the admin list table shipped with another plugin’s text domain, so its two messages could never be translated.
    • Fixed: the Polaroid photo wall section was empty. The Polaroid style does not read the album list the Default style uses — it reads its own flat list of photographs — so the bundled section inserted a wall with nothing on it. It now arrives with six framed photographs, each with a caption and a dat…
    • Fixed: the Polaroid wall collapsed into one column. Its grid takes its column count from the style settings rather than from the block’s own columns setting, and with that unset the CSS came out as repeat(undefined, ...), stacking every frame vertically at full width. The section now sets three col…
    • Fixed: frame captions could be invisible. The caption sits on the frame’s white card but took its colour from the theme, so on a dark theme it was white on white. Caption, note and date colours are now set on the frame itself.
    • Fixed: the tilt of every frame changed on every re-render, so the whole wall reshuffled while you typed in the editor. Each frame now keeps its own angle.
    • Fixed: a Polaroid gallery whose photographs had been cleared could throw before rendering.
    • Fixed: the block had no usable inserter preview. Its example set a preview attribute the block does not have, and the albums it previewed were the empty defaults, so hovering the block in the inserter showed three blank cards. It now previews a real gallery.
    • Placeholder photographs are drawn inline rather than fetched, so a freshly inserted section renders instantly, cannot show a broken image, and puts no outbound request on the page.
    • New: Bulk Add from Media Library. Select several photos at once from the Media Library and add them all in one step — as new gallery items on the Default style, or new frames on the Polaroid wall — instead of adding, uploading, and browsing for each photo one at a time.
    • New: Albums & Filter Bar. Group Default and Polaroid images into named albums and turn on a clickable filter bar so visitors can narrow the gallery down to one album at a time.
    • New: Image Watermarking. Overlay a text or logo watermark on gallery thumbnails and/or the lightbox popup, with position, opacity, and color all configurable from the sidebar.
    • New: Load More Pagination. Show a limited number of images up front with a “Load More” button to reveal the rest, so large galleries load faster.
    • New: Lightbox Toolbar. The lightbox popup can now show a fullscreen toggle, a download button, a share/copy-link button, and an image counter (e.g. “3 / 12”).
    • New: Aspect Ratio Control. Crop gallery thumbnails to Square, 4:3, 16:9, 3:2, or 9:16 instead of relying on a fixed pixel height.
    • New: Right-Click Protection. An optional setting prevents visitors from right-clicking to save gallery images.
    • Improved: Accessibility. Gallery tiles, Polaroid cards, and both lightboxes are now keyboard-operable (Tab, Enter/Space, Escape, Arrow keys), carry proper role/aria-label attributes, and move focus into and back out of the lightbox correctly for screen reader and keyboard users.
    • Improved: Image loading. Gallery and Polaroid thumbnails now lazy-load, and images carry real alt text instead of being decorative-only.
    • Fixed: adding several images to a Default-style gallery in one session (e.g. via Bulk Add) no longer risks a JavaScript error — the gallery’s internal item tracking now grows with the gallery instead of staying fixed at its original size.
    • Fixed: block asset caching now uses the plugin’s real version instead of a static fallback, so gallery styles update immediately after a plugin update instead of waiting on a stale browser cache.
    • New: activating the plugin now takes you straight to the Help & Demos page, so onboarding starts immediately instead of leaving you on the plugins list.
    • Fixed: an update package built with the wrong internal name could install as a separate copy of the plugin instead of replacing the existing one, which then showed as “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Update packages are now always named to match.
    • Improved: the Help & Demos link in the admin sidebar is now highlighted, so it is easier to spot.
    • Improved: cards on the Demos page now show a soft tint of their category color at rest, not only on hover, so related demos are easier to tell apart at a glance.

  4. Image Gallery Block 2.3.0

    • Added: New Admin Dashboard UI with improved layout and user experience.

  5. Image Gallery Block 2.2.11

    • Added: Default Dashboard Color Scheme.

  6. Image Gallery Block 2.2.10

  7. Image Gallery Block 2.2.9

    • Fixed: Premium Overlay Issue.

  8. Image Gallery Block 2.2.8

    • Fixed: Product landing page link not working.

  9. Image Gallery Block 2.2.7

    • Fixed: Freemius Lite SDK Security Vulnerability.

  10. Image Gallery Block 2.2.6

    • Added: New Dashboard.

  11. Image Gallery Block 2.1.5

    • Added: New Screenshots.
    • Fixed: Frontend View Issue.

  12. Image Gallery Block 2.1.4

    • Added: New Features.
    • Fixed: Theme Change Tooltip Issue.

20255 releases

  1. Image Gallery Block 2.0.3

  2. Image Gallery Block 2.0.2

    • Added: Inline Script
    • SDK updated

  3. Image Gallery Block 2.0.1

    • Plugin activation fatal error fixed

  4. Image Gallery Block 2.0.0

    • Added Seven New Styles

  5. Image Gallery Block 1.0.7

    • Fix the image height issue on Firefox

20241 release

  1. Image Gallery Block 1.0.6

    • Fix Issue

20231 release

  1. Image Gallery Block 1.0.5

    • Add translate feature

20225 releases

  1. Image Gallery Block 1.0.4

    • Fix Render Issue

  2. Image Gallery Block 1.0.3

    • Fix the issue.

  3. Image Gallery Block 1.0.2

    • Performance improvements.

  4. Image Gallery Block 1.0.1

    • Fix Typography

  5. Image Gallery Block 1.0.0

    • Initial Release.

Questions about Image Gallery Block’s releases

What is the latest version of Image Gallery Block?

2.4.2, released on Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Image Gallery Block updated?

14 releases in the last year, about one every 27 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2022.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Image Gallery Block’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.