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Advanced Sidebar Menu · Version history

Advanced Sidebar Menu changelog and version history

Latest version
9.8.6
Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
180
since 2011
In the last year
4
about one every 67 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20113 releases
  • 201221 releases
  • 201323 releases
  • 20146 releases
  • 20157 releases
  • 20165 releases
  • 20176 releases
  • 201815 releases
  • 201919 releases
  • 202012 releases
  • 202112 releases
  • 202214 releases
  • 202317 releases
  • 20248 releases
  • 20258 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.6Latest

    • Support WordPress 7.1
    • Tested to WordPress Core 7.1

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.5

    • Harden node security and resolve dependabot security alerts.
    • Required PRO version 9.10.1+.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 7.0.2

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.4

    • Improve page ordering defaults.
    • Officially support PHP 8.5.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 7.0.

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.3

    • Added JSON serialization to block attributes.
    • Improved block attribute translation naming.
    • Removed temporary common attribute filters.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.9.0.

20258 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.2

    • Fixed the display of the “Show on single posts” option in category blocks.

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.1

    • Introduced ‘advanced-sidebar-menu/pages/general-after’ slot fill.
    • Updated expired @todos in PHP docs.

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.8.0

    • Updated Node.js to version 22.21.1.
    • Killed the JS block attribute handler.
    • Updated ESLint rules to version 5 and fixed all suggestions.
    • Combined WidgetWithId into the Widget interface.
    • Required PRO version 9.9.0+.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.8.3.

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.7.1

    • Established a migration plan for removing the WidgetWithId interface.
    • Improved GitHub Actions workflows security.
    • Updated node packages to resolve vulnerabilities.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.8.2.

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.7.0

    • Added new individual block icons.
    • Reduced block registration attribute size.
    • Introduced new Attribute class for block attributes.
    • Required PRO version 9.7.2+.
    • Officially added support for PHP 8.4.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.8.1.

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.5

    • Added PHP 8.4 to linting.
    • Required the PRO version 9.6.1+.
    • Tested to WordPress core 6.8.0.

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.4

    • Improved labels and positions in block settings.
    • Added original plugin author to the readme.
    • Updated dompurify to version 3.2.4 to resolve dependency vulnerabilities.
    • Improved Core::get_template_part to return breadcrumb through reference instead of direct echo.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.7.2.

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.3

    • Introduced advanced-sidebar-menu.blocks.preview.attributes filter.
    • Improved security of node packages.
    • Improved deployment workflow.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.7.1.

20248 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.2

    • Improved block style handling during previews.
    • Disabled HTML editor for blocks.
    • Introduced is_server_side_render helper method on block abstract.
    • Improved isolation of passing block attributes to widget arguments.
    • Fixed double up of block shadow in previews.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.7.0.

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.1

    • Introduce JEST unit testings for the basic version.
    • Improved the automated testing suite.
    • Improved deployment workflows.
    • Fixed sourcemap generation on production builds.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.6.2.

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.6.0

    • Introduced Widget/WidgtId and Widget/WithWidgetId interfaces.
    • Introduced Widget/WidgetIdAccess and Widget/Checbox traits.
    • Improved debug handling in the browser.
    • Introduced advancedSidebarMenuDebug helper function.
    • Added support for PHP based translations.
    • Fixed ‘current-menu-ancestor’ CSS class on category menus.
    • Dropped support for PHP 7.2 in favor of 7.4+.
    • Dropped support for React 17 in favor of 18+.
    • Bumped required PRO version to 9.4.0.
    • Bumped minimum required WordPress version to 6.2.0.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.6.0.

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.5.2

    • Provided unique HTML ids for category widgets with multiple top level categories.
    • Continued work on converting the Menu_Abstract to an interface.
    • Fixed click handling of menu previews in the block editor.
    • Fixed fatal error when is_plugin_active is not available.
    • Implemented PHPStan array shapes for block classes.
    • Improved falsey conditions in the Utils::is_empty method.
    • Officially added support for PHP 8.3.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.5.3.

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.5.1

    • Improved the plugin readme.
    • Improved the translation headers.
    • Improved the List_Pages cache.
    • Added support to live previews using a playground blueprint.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.5.0.

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.5.0

    • Introduced is_truthy utility method.
    • Introduced get_post_type_label utility method.
    • Introduced is_empty utility method.
    • Introduced Menu interface and began promoting Menu_Abstract to it.
    • Introduced Utils_Interface to guarantee the existence of shared methods.
    • Included classic editor state in debug information.
    • Fixed the missing dashicons shown in the Preview component inside iframes.
    • Fixed PHPCS minimum_wp_version config.
    • Switched widget classes to trait/interface based structure.
    • Introduced full array shapes for widget settings.
    • Improved default widget settings.
    • Prevented conflicts with theme styles and widget fields.
    • Fixed excluding of child items if the top level parent is excluded.
    • Converted deprecated block registering args to WordPress 6.1 version.

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.4.3

    • Updated all block’s api version to 3.
    • Updated Node to version 20.
    • Updated Yarn to version 4.
    • Tested to WordPress Core 6.4.3.
    • Required PRO version 9.2.0+.

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.4.2

    • Fixed translation loading in blocks.
    • Improved CSS and JS linting.
    • Introduced ‘advanced-sidebar-menu/block-wrapper-attributes’ filter.
    • Fully support PHP 8.2.

202317 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.4.1

    • Dropped support for PHP 7.0 in favor of 7.2.
    • Bumped minimum supported WordPress version to 6.0.0.
    • Improved block preview link handling.
    • Required PRO version 9.1.8+.

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.4.0

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.3.4

    • Passed block attributes and supports to JavaScript as well as PHP.
    • Fixed issues with block previews in WordPress 6.4.
    • Fixed issues with widget transformations in WordPress 6.4.
    • Improved styles of legacy widget’s info panel.
    • Updated PHPStan level to 8 and fixed all warnings.

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.3.3

    • Fixed issue with blocks loading in WordPress 6.4.
    • Tested to WordPress 6.4.1.

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.3.2

    • Fixed deployignore configurations.

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.3.1

    • Improved select input styles in widget settings.
    • Introduced ‘advanced-sidebar-menu/scripts/admin-scripts’ action.
    • Aligned supported browsers with WordPress core.
    • Updated the Node to version 18.
    • Fixed all ESLint and Stylelint notices.
    • Loosely a requirement for PRO version 9.3.0.

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.3.0

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.2.1

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.2.0

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.1.0

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.11

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.10

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.9

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.8

  15. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.7

  16. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.6

  17. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.5

202214 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.4

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.3

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.2

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.1

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 9.0.0

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 2.1.0

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.8.3

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.8.2

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.8.1

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.8.0

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.7.3

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.7.2

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.7.1

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.7.0

202112 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.6.4

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.6.3

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.6.2

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.6.1

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.6.0

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.5.0

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.4.0

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.3.4

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.3.3

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.3.2

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.3.1

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.3.0

202012 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.2.0

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.1.1

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.1.0

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.0.4

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.0.3

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.0.2

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.0.1

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 8.0.0

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.7.4

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.7.3

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.7.2

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.7.1

201919 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.7.0

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.6

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.5

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.4

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.3

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.2

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.1

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.6.0

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.5

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.4

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.3

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.2

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.1

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.5.0

  15. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.8

  16. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.7

  17. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.6

  18. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.5

  19. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.4

201815 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.3

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.2

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.1

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.4.0

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.3.1

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.3.0

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.5

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.4

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.3

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.2

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.1

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.2.0

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.1.2

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.1.1

  15. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.1.0

20176 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.0.3

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.0.2

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.0.1

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 7.0.0

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 6.4.2

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 6.4.1

20165 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 6.1.0

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 6.0.0

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.1.4

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.1.3

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.1.2

20157 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.1.1

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.9

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.7

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.6

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.5

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.4

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.3

20146 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.2

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.1

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 5.0.0

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.7.6

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.7.5

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.7.3

201323 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.7.1

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.7.0

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.6.1

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.6.0

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.5.0

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.4.0

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.3.5

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.3.4

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.3.3

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.3.2

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.3.1

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.2.2

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.2.1

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.2.0

  15. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.1.4

  16. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.1.3

  17. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.1.2

  18. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.1.0

  19. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.0.1

  20. Advanced Sidebar Menu 4.0.0

  21. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.6.2

  22. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.6.0

  23. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.5.0

201221 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.7

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.6

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.5

  4. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.2

  5. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.1

  6. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.4.0

  7. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.3.1

  8. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.2.5

  9. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.3.0

  10. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.0.0

  11. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.2.3

  12. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.2.1

  13. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.2.0

  14. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.0.2

  15. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.0.1

  16. Advanced Sidebar Menu 3.0

  17. Advanced Sidebar Menu 2.1

  18. Advanced Sidebar Menu 2.0.1

  19. Advanced Sidebar Menu 2.0.0

  20. Advanced Sidebar Menu 1.5.0

  21. Advanced Sidebar Menu 1.5

20113 releases

  1. Advanced Sidebar Menu 1.4.4

  2. Advanced Sidebar Menu 2.0

  3. Advanced Sidebar Menu 1.2

Questions about Advanced Sidebar Menu’s releases

What is the latest version of Advanced Sidebar Menu?

9.8.6, released on Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4.0 or later.

How often is Advanced Sidebar Menu updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 67 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2011.

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