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Automatic YouTube Gallery · Version history

Automatic YouTube Gallery changelog and version history

Latest version
2.9.2
Oct 17, 2026 (23 days ago)
Releases
37
since 2018
In the last year
9
about one every 43 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6.20 or later

Releases each year

  • 20181 release
  • 20193 releases
  • 20203 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20224 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.9.2Latest

    • New: Livestream galleries can now show the channel’s latest recording or its next upcoming stream when nothing is live. Choose under YouTube Gallery → Settings → Livestream → “When No Stream Is Live”. An upcoming stream is shown in YouTube’s own player with its countdown. Existing sites keep showin…
    • New: Introduced ayg_livestream_candidates and ayg_livestream_cache_duration filter hooks.
    • Tweak: The “Player Color” setting under YouTube Gallery → Settings → Player is now shown for both player types.
    • Tweak: The cookie consent button now uses the “Player Color”, the player now uses a consistent system font, and a long consent message scrolls on small screens instead of being cut off.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.5.
    • Fix: Livestream galleries now find streams that have been live for a long time, such as 24/7 wildlife cams, which YouTube’s search often missed. They no longer use YouTube’s search, and they pick up a stream starting or ending within minutes instead of up to a day.
    • Fix: Private and deleted YouTube videos no longer appear in galleries as blank “Private video” or “Deleted video” entries, including ones imported by an earlier version.
    • Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.9.1

    • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 7.1.

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.9.0

    • Security Fix: Fixed a vulnerability that allowed an unauthenticated visitor to add YouTube videos of their choosing to any gallery on the site through the gallery pagination endpoint. The endpoint now identifies the gallery from the site’s own saved data instead of trusting the request, and will no…
    • Security Fix: A gallery’s cache duration can no longer be altered by the request, so the cache can no longer be bypassed to force repeated YouTube Data API calls against your quota. Your “Cache Duration” setting continues to work exactly as configured, including “No Caching”. Added the ayg_ajax_cac…
    • Security Fix: Pagination tokens for galleries that read from the YouTube Data API are now signed, so only page requests your own site issued are acted on. This closes the remaining way an unauthenticated visitor could run down your daily API quota.
    • Security Fix: Search keywords are now fully URL encoded before the request is sent to the YouTube Data API, so extra parameters can no longer be appended to the outgoing request.
    • Security Fix: Hardened reading of stored video thumbnail data so it can only ever produce plain data.
    • All of the security issues above were discovered and reported responsibly to us by Mohammed Abd Alrahman.
    • New: Introduced ayg_ajax_cache_duration filter hook.
    • New: Introduced ayg_get_gallery_source(), ayg_db_gallery_has_videos(), ayg_sign_page_token() and ayg_verify_page_token() helper functions.

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.8.1

    • New: Introduced the Gallery Builder, which replaces the classic Shortcode Builder. Every gallery now has its own saved shortcode with a single unique ID — e.g. [automatic_youtube_gallery id="123"] — that you can reuse anywhere and manage from one place.
    • New: Galleries now store their videos in the plugin’s own tables, unlocking new per-gallery options: order videos by published date, title, duration, or random; filter by duration to show only Shorts or hide Shorts; and exclude specific videos from the import.
    • New: Galleries are kept up to date automatically by a scheduled background sync — choose hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly per gallery, or pause it entirely. If you ever need the newest videos right away, just open the gallery and click “Update Gallery” for an instant refresh.
    • New: Gallery Builder galleries are no longer limited to 50 videos per page — set “Videos per Page” to 0 to show all videos on a single page.
    • Tweak: Your existing shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, and widgets are fully backward compatible and continue to work exactly as before — nothing on your live site changes or needs to be rebuilt.
    • Tweak: Removed the “Show Annotations” (iv_load_policy) player option, as YouTube retired video annotations and the parameter no longer has any effect.
    • Tweak: Refreshed the plugin logo and admin branding.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.4.
    • Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  5. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.7.2

    • New: Added “Slider Autoplay” and “Autoplay Speed” settings for the Slider + Popup theme.
    • New: Introduced ayg_theme_classic_params, ayg_theme_inline_params, ayg_theme_playlist_params, ayg_theme_slider_params, ayg_theme_slider_inline_params, and ayg_theme_slider_popup_params filter hooks for customizing player parameters per theme.
    • New: Introduced ayg_theme_slider_slick_options filter hook for customizing Slick carousel options across all slider themes.
    • New: Introduced ayg_search_form_params filter hook for customizing search form parameters. The previous ayg_search_form_args hook is deprecated but retained for backward compatibility.
    • New: Introduced ayg_autoflush_rewrite_rules_in_admin filter hook to optionally enable rewrite rule checks in admin contexts (runs on public pages only by default).
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.1.
    • Tweak: Improved performance of video storage by replacing per-video database queries with a single bulk INSERT per API response, reducing database load on cache-miss pagination requests.
    • Tweak: Disabled autoloading for the ayg_transient_keys, ayg_channel_ids, and ayg_playlist_ids options to prevent lookup caches from being loaded on every page request site-wide.
    • Tweak: Switched rewrite rule flush from hard (.htaccess rewrite) to soft (database only), avoiding unnecessary file I/O on the front end.
    • Fix: WordPress 7.0 compatibility issues.

  6. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.7.1

    • New: Added options to force-load the plugin’s CSS and JavaScript across all front-end pages. This helps resolve layout or functionality issues caused by themes, page builders, or optimization plugins.
    • New: Added a “Shorts / Vertical (9:16)” option to the “Image Height (Ratio)” setting.
    • New: Added a “Shorts / Vertical (9:16)” option to the “Player Height (Ratio)” setting.
    • Tweak: Improved popup player behavior — the player now always fits within the viewport. Previously, it could extend beyond the visible area.
    • Tweak: Enhanced slider dots behavior by limiting the maximum number of dots to 5 and automatically enabling dots during navigation when using the slider template.
    • Tweak: Introduced a new wrapper function, ayg_get_option(), for the WordPress get_option() function to prevent issues when plugin settings are missing.
    • Fix: Resolved an issue where deeplinking did not work correctly on the site home/front page.
    • Fix: Registered custom query variables to prevent conflicts with SEO and optimization plugins that may strip unrecognized query vars.
    • Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

20257 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.6.5

    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.0.
    • Fix: WordPress 6.9 compatibility issues.

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.6.4

    • New: Added support for displaying single videos in a popup.
    • Tweak: Enhanced Schema.org (JSON-LD) structured data support for all single video layouts.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.12.2.
    • Fix: Resolved issue where the fullscreen button stopped working during continuous play in fullscreen mode.
    • Fix: Improved compatibility with the Divi page builder.
    • Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.6.3

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.6.1

    • Security Fix: Addressed multiple security issues to enhance overall plugin security.
    • Tweak: Updated the Freemius SDK to version 2.12.1.
    • Fix: Fixed compatibility issues with the Oxygen page builder.
    • Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

  5. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.6.0

    • New: Added support for disabling automatic page scroll to the video player by setting the “Page Scroll Top Offset” to -1, giving users more control over layout behavior.
    • Fix: Resolved various minor bugs and applied performance improvements for a smoother experience.

  6. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.5.9

    • New: Introduced a search form to filter videos within the gallery for easier navigation.
    • New: Added a dedicated settings page to manage all button labels used by the plugin in one place.
    • Tweak: “Development Mode” is now disabled by default, as some users were unknowingly using it on production websites, leading to YouTube quota exceeded errors.
    • Tweak: Added an option to disable caching on a per-gallery basis for greater flexibility.
    • Fix: Addressed several minor bugs and implemented performance enhancements.

  7. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.5.6

    • Update: Upgraded to the latest version of the Freemius SDK for enhanced compatibility.
    • Fix: Fixed multiple minor bugs to ensure a smoother and more reliable user experience.

20245 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.5.5

    • Tweak: Updated the “Freemius SDK” to version 2.10.1.
    • Fix: Compatibility issues with the Elementor page builder.

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.5.2

    • New: Introduced a “Custom Video Player” as an alternative to the default native YouTube embed. Users can configure this via the “Player Type” option.
    • New: Added “Lazy Loading” for images and videos, enhancing page load times and overall performance.
    • New: Introduced a new “Page Scroll Top Offset” option, enabling users to define a custom top offset (in pixels) when the page scrolls to the video player after clicking on a thumbnail.
    • Tweak: Completely rewrote the plugin’s JavaScript files using the latest “Custom Elements” technology, ensuring better integration and improved performance.
    • Tweak: Updated the “Freemius SDK” to version 2.9.0.
    • Fix: Resolved various minor bugs to enhance stability and functionality.

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.4.3

    • New: Introduced a new “Player Width” option.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.7.4).
    • Fix: Poster image display issue when using the single video shortcode.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.9

    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.7.0).
    • Fix: Livestream API caching issue.
    • Fix: Conflict issue with the Google Site Kit plugin.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

  5. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.8

    • Tweak: Optimized JavaScript loading.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.6.2).
    • Fix: GDPR compatibility issues.
    • Fix: YouTube Livestream feature stopped working due to a recent update from the YouTube API.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

20234 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.6

    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.6.1).
    • Fix: WordPress 6.4 compatibility issues.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.5

    • Fix: Security fix: Broken Access Control. Thanks to Rafshanzani Suhada from Patchstack.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.3

    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.10).
    • Fix: Security fix.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.3.2

    • New: WPML Compatibility.
    • New: POLYLANG Compatibility.
    • New: Support for the “Muted” option in the player.
    • New: “Privacy Enhanced Mode” for the player.
    • New: Support for YouTube “Origin” parameter that adds extra security for the player.
    • New: Options to change the “Load More”, “Previous”, and the “Next” pagination button labels.
    • Tweak: Updated to the Gutenberg API Version 2.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.7).
    • Tweak: All the CSS & JS files added by the plugin are minified for better performance.
    • Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

20224 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.2.0

    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.2).
    • Fix: Performance issues that occurred after upgrading to our 2.1.0 version.

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.1.0

    • New: Sidebar Widget.
    • New: A filter hook “ayg_pagination_args” for developers to override the pagination args.
    • Tweak: Player initialization has been changed from “Iframe” to “Javascript” for better performance.
    • Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.5).
    • Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 2.0.0

    • New: GDPR consent before the playback.
    • Tweak: The plugin front-end has been completely rewritten.
    • Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.5

    • Security Fix.

20214 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.4

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.3

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.2

  4. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.1

20203 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.6.0

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.5.0

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.4.0

20193 releases

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.3.0

  2. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.2.0

  3. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.1.0

20181 release

  1. Automatic YouTube Gallery 1.0.0

Questions about Automatic YouTube Gallery’s releases

What is the latest version of Automatic YouTube Gallery?

2.9.2, released on Oct 17, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6.20 or later.

How often is Automatic YouTube Gallery updated?

9 releases in the last year, about one every 43 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2018.

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