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Back Button Widget · Version history

Back Button Widget changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.0
Oct 5, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
29
since 2017
In the last year
2
about one every 132 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20171 release
  • 20194 releases
  • 20205 releases
  • 20215 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20244 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.8.0Latest

    • Dev – Output escaped.
    • Dev – Font Awesome – Load locally.
    • Dev – Settings – Plugin icon added.
    • Dev – Code refactoring.
    • Dev – Coding standards improved.
    • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated (to v1.1.2).
    • Dev – WPFactory Cross-Selling – Library updated (to v1.1.6).
    • Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Library updated (to v1.1.1).
    • Tested up to: 7.1.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.7.2

    • Tested up to: 7.0.

20252 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.7.1

    • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated.
    • Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Library updated.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.7.0

    • Dev – Security – Escape output.
    • Dev – Plugin settings moved to the “WPFactory” menu.
    • Dev – “Recommendations” added.
    • Dev – “Key Manager” added.
    • Dev – Code refactoring.
    • Dev – Coding standards improved.
    • Tested up to: 6.8.

20244 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.6.8

    • Tested up to: 6.6.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.6.7

    • Dev – PHP 8.2 compatibility – “Creation of dynamic property is deprecated” notice fixed.
    • Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
    • Readme.txt – Minor fixes.

  3. Back Button Widget 1.6.6

    • Fix – ALG_BACK_BUTTON_WIDGET_VERSION constant updated.

  4. Back Button Widget 1.6.5

    • Tested up to: 6.5.
    • Readme.txt – Plugin description, tags updated.

20234 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.6.4

    • Dev – Escaping output.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.6.3

    • Tested up to: 6.3.
    • WP plugin logo, banner updated.

  3. Back Button Widget 1.6.2

    • Contributors updated.

  4. Back Button Widget 1.6.1

    • Dev – Shortcode – fa_template attribute added (defaults to %icon%).
    • Dev – Shortcode – Optional before and after attributes added.
    • Tested up to: 6.2.

20222 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.6.0

    • Dev – Plugin is initialized on the plugins_loaded action now.
    • Tested up to: 6.1.
    • Readme.txt updated.
    • Deploy script added.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.5.3

    • Dev – “Font Awesome” options added (“Load” and “URL”).
    • Tested up to: 5.9.

20215 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.5.2

    • Dev – Shortcode – show_on_url_param and show_on_url_param_value attributes added.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.5.1

    • Dev – Floating Button – “Set as shortcode” options added.

  3. Back Button Widget 1.5.0

    • Dev – Widget – “Hide on URL param” options added.
    • Dev – Shortcode – hide_on_url_param and hide_on_url_param_value attributes added.
    • Dev – Code refactoring.

  4. Back Button Widget 1.4.0

    • Fix – Menu Options – Replace URL – Option fixed.
    • Dev – “Floating Button Options” added.
    • Dev – Settings – Major code refactoring.
    • Tested up to: 5.7.

  5. Back Button Widget 1.3.0

    • Dev – “Menu Options” added.
    • Dev – type – href option added.
    • Dev – Localisation – load_plugin_textdomain moved to the init action.

20205 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.2.4

    • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_back_button] – fa (Font Awesome) attribute added.
    • Tested up to: 5.6.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.2.3

    • Tested up to: 5.5.

  3. Back Button Widget 1.2.2

    • Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_back_button] – Language (i.e., translation) attributes (lang and not_lang_text) added.
    • Dev – Admin action links text updated.

  4. Back Button Widget 1.2.1

    • Dev – Admin action links added.
    • Dev – Plugin version is saved in site options now.

  5. Back Button Widget 1.2.0

    • Dev – “Hide on front page” option added.
    • Dev – Code refactoring.
    • Link to Pro version added.

20194 releases

  1. Back Button Widget 1.1.2

    • Dev – Minor code refactoring.
    • Tested up to: 5.3.

  2. Back Button Widget 1.1.1

  3. Back Button Widget 1.1.0

  4. Back Button Widget 1.0.1

20171 release

  1. Back Button Widget 1.0.0

Questions about Back Button Widget’s releases

What is the latest version of Back Button Widget?

1.8.0, released on Oct 5, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Back Button Widget updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 132 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2017.

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