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Attachments · Version history

Attachments changelog and version history

Latest version
3.5.11
Dec 30, 2025 (10 months ago)
Releases
63
since 2009
In the last year
2
about one every 0 days
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11

Releases each year

  • 20097 releases
  • 201011 releases
  • 201112 releases
  • 20128 releases
  • 201318 releases
  • 20141 release
  • 20153 releases
  • 20221 release
  • 20252 releases

20252 releases

  1. Attachments 3.6.10

  2. Attachments 3.5.11Latest

    • Compatibility with WordPress 6.9
    • Fixes Fatal Error in some cases when deleting. Props m-hefti
    • Fixes field value population for non-English values. Props marcochiesi
    • Fixed bug in generated code for migration from Attachments Pro Props marcochiesi
    • Fix documentation links on WordPress plugins page. Props crgeary

20221 release

  1. Attachments 3.5.9

    • Added link to collapse Attachments to make sorting easier
    • Fixes PHP Notice on installation
    • Fixes illegal offset error on PHP7
    • Added Dutch translation

20153 releases

  1. Attachments 3.5.7

    • Fixed a regression that prevented attaching multiple files at once
  2. Attachments 3.5.6

    • Fixed an issue where changing an Attachment on more than one Attachment would continually update the first Attachment
    • Media modal now includes filters (props marcochiesi)
    • Added German translation (props bessl)
    • Added filter to manipulate Attachments metadata before it’s saved: attachments_meta_before_save
    • Underscores are no longer enforced over hyphens
    • More entropy for Attachments uid’s to prevent collisions (props sketchpad)
  3. Attachments 3.5.5

    • Fixed an issue where field values were improperly overwritten when the instance was set to prepend in some cases

20141 release

  1. Attachments 3.5.4

    • Fixed assumption of field keys (props bukka)
    • Improved documentation (props Lane Goldberg, Roman Kokarev, Ore Landau)
    • Added rewind() method to reset Attachments reference array (props joost de keijzer)
    • TinyMCE fix to support WordPress 3.9+
    • Fixed an issue where nonce was potentially wrongly flagged as sent if an instance was filtered
    • Added post_parent argument support for instances, setting to true will populate the Uploaded to column in Media
    • New filter: attachments_default_instance to disable/enable the default instance (default is true, ATTACHMENTS_DEFAULT_INSTANCE constant is deprecated)
    • New filter: attachments_settings_screen to hide/show the settings screen (default is true, ATTACHMENTS_SETTINGS_SCREEN constant is deprecated)
    • Fixed an issue where Attachments meta box(es) would not show up when creating new posts whose post_type had a dash in it
    • Updated Italian translation (props Luca Speranza)

201318 releases

  1. Attachments 3.5.3

    • Cleaned up PHP Warning/Notice (props Mike C.)
    • Fixed a potential fatal error triggered by deleting something from the Media library that was an Attachment
    • Tested with WordPress 3.7
  2. Attachments 3.5.2

    • Fixed an issue where newline characters may not be properly retrieved
    • Fixed an issue with localization not initializing properly
    • Resolved a PHP Strict warning (props @bukka)
  3. Attachments 3.5.1.1

    • Fixed an issue where Featured Images may have become inadvertently disabled, props @deborre
  4. Attachments 3.5.1

    • Fixed an issue where changing an Attachment changed all attachments, props @bartoszwww
    • Fixed an issue where certain Unicode characters weren’t decoded properly, props @stuk88
  5. Attachments 3.5

    • Initial implementation of limiting the number of Attachments
    • You can now change an Attachment asset without having to remove the entire Attachment and re-add something new
    • New filter: attachments_location_{my_instance} (where **{my_instance}** is your instance name) allows for more fine-grained control over where meta boxes show up (e.g. limiting to your Home page)
    • New action: attachments_extension facilitates Attachments extensions
    • New method width( $size ) to retrieve the width of the current Attachment
    • New method height( $size ) to retrieve the height of the current Attachment
    • New document structure, various additions to documentation
    • Attachments Pro migration script. If you’ve been waiting to migrate from Attachments Pro please back up your database and run the migration script.
    • Fixed an asset URL issue if Attachments is added as a must-use plugin
    • Italian translation (props Marco Chiesi)
  6. Attachments 3.4.2.1

    • Fixed a regression that prevented the type method from returning
  7. Attachments 3.4.2

    • Fixed an issue where the languages directory wouldn’t be utilized for l10n
    • Search now respects custom meta_key
    • You can now pass in a filetype parameter when searching to limit results in that way
  8. Attachments 3.4

    • New filter: attachments_meta_key facilitates using a different meta key for Attachments storage
    • New filter: attachments_get_ **{my_instance}** (where **{my_instance}** is your instance name) allows you to filter Attachments per instance once they’ve been retrieved
    • Fixed an issue where retrieving single Attachments didn’t properly pass the index to attribute methods
    • Fixed PHP Warnings when Network Activating
    • You can now have new Attachments prepend the list instead of append by setting append => false in your instance
  9. Attachments 3.3.3

    • Fixed a PHP Warning when activated using Multisite
    • Slightly modified the migration process to better handle plugins like WPML (props sebastian.friedrich)
  10. Attachments 3.3.2

    • You can now specify which view is default when browsing the Media modal (e.g. have ‘Upload Files’ be default instead of ‘Media Library’)
  11. Attachments 3.3.1

    • Added meta box positioning arguments when registering instances
    • Cleaned up some CSS when Attachments instances are in the sidebar
  12. Attachments 3.3

    • Added a search() method to allow searching for Attachments based on their attributes (e.g. attachment ID, post ID, post type, field values, etc.)
    • Improved the ‘Remove’ animation
    • New field: select
    • New parameter for Attachments attributes methods. You can pass the index (int) of the Attachment you’d like to utilize when firing the method.
  13. Attachments 3.2

    • Added option to disable the Settings screen
    • Added the ability to set a default for fields using the metadata that exists in WordPress. Available defaults include: title, caption, alt, and description. If set, the metadata for the correlating field will be used as the field default when initially adding an Attachment from the Media modal. Onl…
    • Added a get_single() method that allows you to specifically retrieve a single Attachment
    • Clarified some documentation
  14. Attachments 3.1.4

    • Changed ‘Delete’ to ‘Remove’ so as to not make it sound like the file itself would be deleted from Media (props Lane Goldberg)
    • Better handling of posts that have no Attachments when saving
  15. Attachments 3.1.3

    • Fixed a potential issue with the WYSIWYG field not working on CPT without editor support
    • Field assets are less aggressive and only fire when necessary
    • Reorganized the migration process a bit in prep for Attachments Pro support
  16. Attachments 3.1.2

    • Fixed a regression that prevented successful migration of legacy Attachments data
  17. Attachments 3.1.1

    • Fixed a Fatal Error when registering the text field
  18. Attachments 3.1

    • New field: wysiwyg
    • Fields will now properly respect line breaks
    • Fields will now properly return HTML instead of escaped HTML

20128 releases

  1. Attachments 3.0.8.2

    • Fixed a CSS issue with only one text field
  2. Attachments 3.0.8.1

  3. Attachments 3.0.8

  4. Attachments 3.0.7

  5. Attachments 3.0.6

  6. Attachments 1.6.2.1

  7. Attachments 1.6.2

  8. Attachments 1.6.1

201112 releases

  1. Attachments 1.6

  2. Attachments 1.5.10

  3. Attachments 1.5.9

  4. Attachments 1.5.8

  5. Attachments 1.5.7

  6. Attachments 1.5.6

  7. Attachments 1.5.5

  8. Attachments 1.5.4

  9. Attachments 1.5.3.2

  10. Attachments 1.5.3.1

  11. Attachments 1.5.3

  12. Attachments 1.5.2

201011 releases

  1. Attachments 1.5.1.2

  2. Attachments 1.5.1.1

  3. Attachments 1.5.1

  4. Attachments 1.5

  5. Attachments 1.1.1

  6. Attachments 1.1

  7. Attachments 1.0.9

  8. Attachments 1.0.8

  9. Attachments 1.0.7.1

  10. Attachments 1.0.7

  11. Attachments 1.0.5

20097 releases

  1. Attachments 1.0.4.2

  2. Attachments 1.0.4.1

  3. Attachments 1.0.4

  4. Attachments 1.0.3

  5. Attachments 1.0.2

  6. Attachments 1.0.1

  7. Attachments 1.0

Questions about Attachments’s releases

What is the latest version of Attachments?

3.5.11, released on Dec 30, 2025 (10 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11.

How often is Attachments updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 0 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from November 2009.

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