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Business Card Block · Version history

Business Card Block changelog and version history

Latest version
2.1.7
Oct 27, 2026 (13 days ago)
Releases
21
since 2022
In the last year
15
about one every 23 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20224 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20254 releases
  • 202612 releases

202612 releases

  1. Business Card Block 2.1.7Latest

    • New – Phone numbers can now be marked as Mobile, Work, Home or Fax, and the downloaded vCard labels them accordingly instead of exporting every number as a mobile.
    • Fix – The plugin can now be translated. Every string in the editor and on the card was registered under a text domain the plugin does not declare, so no translation could ever load, in any language.
    • Fix – Translations are now loaded for all JavaScript. WordPress has no automatic fallback for script translations, and the call that registers them was missing, so translated strings stayed English even where a translation existed.
    • Fix – Translation files are now named for the plugin’s text domain. The previous names could never be found by WordPress, however complete the translation was.
    • Fix – Two settings labels in the card block were hard-coded in English and could not be translated at all.
    • Tweak – Fixed the tooling that builds the translation template, which had been writing it under a name and text domain WordPress does not look for.
    • Tweak – The fourteen industry card blocks had been left on an older version number than the plugin itself; all blocks now report the release they ship in.
    • Tweak – Cut roughly 1 MB from every block’s editor assets by no longer bundling a code editor the plugin does not use. The download is smaller and the block editor loads less on every page.
    • Tweak – Updated the Freemius SDK to 2.13.4.

  2. Business Card Block 2.1.6

    • Fix – The company field in block settings was not being saved, defaulting to “Tech Crop” for all new cards. The default is removed and the field now respects user input.
    • Fix – Contact rows, particularlyIMO and WeChat, were sometimes shown with an icon even when they had no value. The block now only renders a contact row when there is actual content.

  3. Business Card Block 2.1.5

    • Fix – Downloaded vCard files started with a byte-order mark, which made strict address books refuse to import them — iOS Contacts and Windows Contacts among them. The mark is gone and the character encoding is declared on the download itself.
    • Fix – The QR code Size control had no effect on several card designs, where a built-in size overrode the chosen value. Per-design sizes now act as an upper limit, so the control works on every card.
    • Fix – Contact rows used different markup in the editor preview than on the published page, so spacing and alignment drifted between the two. Both now render the same structure.
    • Fix – Admin styles and scripts could be served from a stale browser cache after an update, because the asset version had stopped tracking the plugin version.
    • Fix – The website exported to the vCard is now a complete URL. A value typed without “https://” was written to the file verbatim, which some address books stored as an unusable link.

  4. Business Card Block 2.1.4

    • New – Added QR code sharing (vCard, URL, custom link) generated on the server as SVG with zero client-side JavaScript overhead.
    • New – Added “Reveal” QR display mode with hover/tap/keyboard triggers, customizable corner icon placement, and readable background fallbacks.
    • New – Added “Interactive Flip” QR display mode with 3D card rotation, 9 placement presets, custom positioning, and accessibility respect for reduced motion.
    • New – Added optional label, caption, and center mark (initials or logo) for QR codes, with automatic error correction adjustments.
    • New – Added dedicated contact fields for WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, IMO, and WeChat.
    • New – Added clickable contact actions (tel:, mailto:, map links, direct messaging app launches, and copy-to-clipboard for IMO/WeChat).
    • New – Added Schema.org JSON-LD structured data output (Person, Organization, LocalBusiness) with automatic detection and per-card toggles.
    • New – Added “Minimal QR” card layout optimized for clean, QR-first visual presentation.
    • Fix – Security: Restricted shortcode rendering to prevent unauthorized access to draft, private, password-protected, or non-card post types.
    • Fix – Security: Enforced protocol allow-lists on social links to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) via javascript: URIs.
    • Fix – Security: Server-side enforcement added for premium themes to prevent client-side paywall bypasses.
    • Fix – Resolved RFC 2426 compliance issues in vCard exports (line folding, character escaping, structured fields, UTF-8 encoding).
    • Fix – Unified editor preview and frontend vCard generator to eliminate data mismatch issues.
    • Fix – Fixed an issue in industry blocks where setting panel text/link inputs wiped existing field values on open.
    • Tweak – Integrated QR sections directly into card design layouts, respecting local accent colors, corner radii, and responsive sidebars.
    • Tweak – Enhanced downloaded .vcf files to include profile photo references and messaging handles.
    • Tweak – Improved typography and layout wrapping for contact/QR text on narrow mobile viewports.
    • Tweak – Added visible focus rings and dedicated screen-reader labels for all interactive contact actions.
    • Tweak – Made the vCard download button label fully customizable.

  5. Business Card Block 2.1.3

    • Improvement: Added demo previews for 14 new industry-specific Business Card blocks
    • Improvement: Added new screenshots to the readme to showcase the latest features and block designs.

  6. Business Card Block 2.1.2

    • New: Add Short Code Support For All Child Blocks
    • Fix: enhance LicenseActivation with i18n, PHPDoc, and validation improvements

  7. Business Card Block 2.1.1

    • Improvement: Global Bug Fix: Added strict max character constraints (50-255 characters) to all inputs across all 15 blocks to prevent layout-breaking text.
    • Improvement: UI Fix: Adjusted the rendering fallback logic for empty social items and empty SVGs to fix object rendering bugs.
    • Improvement: Layout Fix: Enabled safe flex wrapping and word breaks across core elements to preserve geometry under edge cases.
    • Improvement: Stability Fix: Updated text fields, constraints, and inputs directly on native controls.

  8. Business Card Block 2.1.0

    • New: Added 14 new industry-specific Pro Business Card blocks (Restaurant, Medical, Real Estate, Veterinarian, Architect, Barber, Automotive, Tutor, SaaS Founder, Contractor, Salon, Fitness, Photographer, Legal).
    • Improvement: Redesigned the Admin Dashboard with a modern Welcome page and a new Blocks manager to enable/disable specific cards.
    • Improvement: Grouped all plugin blocks under a dedicated “Business Cards” category in the block inserter.

  9. Business Card Block 2.0.5

    • New: Added High-Performance Animation System with viewport-aware triggering, 5 animation types, and granular controls.
    • New: Added Advanced Branding & Identity System with Overlap/Stack layouts, custom masking, hover effects, and Monochrome mode.
    • Improvement: Improved Responsive Architecture 2.0 with intelligent stacking, identity auto-scaling, and contact word-breaking.
    • Improvement: Enhanced Performance & Stability with compositor-thread optimization and CSS variable engine.
    • Fix: Fixed Help & Demos dashboard rendering blank by loading its assets on every entry URL and including the required wp-api-fetch dependency.

  10. Business Card Block 2.0.4

    • Improvement: update vCard

  11. Business Card Block 2.0.3

    • Improvement: Update Admin Dashboard

  12. Business Card Block 2.0.2

    • Fix: fix header margin issue

20254 releases

  1. Business Card Block 2.0.1

    • Fix: Bug fix: corrected broken links.

  2. Business Card Block 2.0.0

    • New: Added six new themes for improved design and customization.

  3. Business Card Block 1.0.6

    • Improvement: Improve security

  4. Business Card Block 1.0.5

    • Improvement: Reduce assets load

20231 release

  1. Business Card Block 1.0.4

    • New: Add translate feature

20224 releases

  1. Business Card Block 1.0.3

    • Fix: Fix Width

  2. Business Card Block 1.0.2

    • Fix: Fix HTML Render

  3. Business Card Block 1.0.1

    • Fix: Fix CSS issue

  4. Business Card Block 1.0.0

    • Improvement: Initial Release.

Questions about Business Card Block’s releases

What is the latest version of Business Card Block?

2.1.7, released on Oct 27, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Business Card Block updated?

15 releases in the last year, about one every 23 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from April 2022.

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