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Advanced WordPress Backgrounds · Version history

Advanced WordPress Backgrounds changelog and version history

Latest version
1.13.0
Aug 26, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
17
since 2018
In the last year
5
about one every 64 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20182 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20233 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.13.0Latest

    • added a Privacy-Enhanced Mode toggle for YouTube backgrounds, shown once the entered URL is a YouTube one
    • changed YouTube backgrounds to use the regular YouTube host by default, because the privacy-enhanced host asks a share of visitors to sign in before it plays anything
    • added WordPress 7.1 compatibility
    • fixed the Disable video setting doing nothing when ticked
    • fixed parallax sitting at the wrong offset in the block editor, which also stopped video backgrounds starting there
    • fixed full width stretching inside a Ghost Kit grid in the block editor
    • raised the minimum PHP requirement to 7.4

  2. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.11

    • fixed Vimeo video backgrounds not playing

  3. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.10

    • updated Jarallax and Video-Worker libraries to the latest v3

  4. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.9

    • tested up to WordPress 7.0
    • changed block registration: register the block early on init and register awb block attributes after other blocks load

20252 releases

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.8

    • testes with WP 6.9

  2. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.7

    • added setting to prevent custom image sizes registration
    • fixed block layout constrained on frontend

20245 releases

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.6

    • revert back block default attributes added in v1.12.5 as it crashes the block

  2. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.5

    • added WP 6.7 compatibility fixes
    • added more block support features: ariaLabel, colors, shadow, border and position
    • changed registration of block assets to use enqueue_block_assets hook
    • changed some block default attributes

  3. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.4

    • added escaping to imageTag attribute in the AWB block to prevent xss vulnerability

  4. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.3

    • fixed background settings display in Ghost Kit columns
    • fixed parallax option enabled on block with Color background type

  5. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.2

    • added support for private Vimeo videos hash in URL
    • fixed play method play when endTime reached
    • fixed rendering styles error in editor iframe and latest Gutenberg

20233 releases

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.1

    • improved EditorStyles component to use portals in WP editor
    • fixed error in WP editor because of missing lodash dependency

  2. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.12.0

    • added support for new Ghost Kit extensions
    • removed Ghost Kit spacings fallback feature, use Gutenberg spacings instead
    • fixed default AWB padding in editor
    • changed attributes registration from JS to PHP

  3. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.11.5

    • change block apiVersion to v3
    • fixed parallax speed 0 in AWB block
    • fixed JS error inside iframe in block editor

20211 release

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.7.7

    • added encode/decode to Gutenberg block image tag attribute
    • fixed shortcode inserter color overlay selection
    • fixed conflict with PublishPress Blocks plugin
    • fixed React state change inside render callback

20182 releases

  1. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.3.2

  2. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds 1.2.4

Questions about Advanced WordPress Backgrounds’s releases

What is the latest version of Advanced WordPress Backgrounds?

1.13.0, released on Aug 26, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Advanced WordPress Backgrounds updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 64 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2018.

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