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Custom Layouts · Version history

Custom Layouts changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.1
Dec 29, 2025 (10 months ago)
Releases
26
since 2021
In the last year
2
about one every 15 days
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 202117 releases
  • 20223 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20253 releases

20253 releases

  1. Custom Layouts 1.5.1Latest

    • Fix – an issue that prevented layouts and template from being saved in the admin editors.

  2. Custom Layouts 1.5.0

    • New – add Support for Search & Filter Version 3.
    • Fix – issues with date custom fields and timezone formatting.
    • Fix – security hardening – prevent post templates in editor previews from showing protected content.

  3. Custom Layouts 1.4.12

    • Security improvements.

20241 release

  1. Custom Layouts 1.4.11

    • Improvement – add post title to the featured image anchor tag.
    • Fix – issues with the font panel throwing an error.
    • Fix – issues with inheriting block editor styles in our admin screens.

20232 releases

  1. Custom Layouts 1.4.10

    • Fix – issues with WP 6.4 and our admin scripts not loading (lodash was deprecated).
    • Fix – CSS issues in our modals in the block editor.

  2. Custom Layouts 1.4.9

    • Update – use wp_kses_post instead of esc_html to allow html tags in post titles.
    • Fix – issues with WP 6.2 and our admin scripts not loading.
    • Fix – a UI issue with our admin multiselect fields not displaying correctly
    • New – support shortcodes in the “no results” message
    • New – support layouts and templates in FSE.

20223 releases

  1. Custom Layouts 1.4.8

    • Fix – issue with search form selection being reset
    • Fix – Add i18n to date picker option
    • Fix – An issue with save button being disabled after a single change in our modals
    • New – Grid gap layout setting which allows for more granular control of spacing (replaces item spacing)
    • New – Spacing controls to add margin and padding to your layouts
    • New – Background color + gradient option for your Layouts
    • Improvement – use CSS var for setting dynamic padding

  2. Custom Layouts 1.4.7

    • Fix – a bug with our posts layout block not saving the connected Search & Filter query correctly
    • Fix – use css vars to dynamically add layout spacing (prevents a validation error when using style tags)
    • Fix – an issue with taxonomy terms being double encoded, causing admin previews to fail when taxonomy terms have special characters
    • Fix – an issue when using the font size selector field refreshing our admin screens (they were causing an unwanted page submit).
    • Fix – an issue where templates wouldn’t render if elements had not been added – thanks @mchelles for reporting
    • Fix – an issue with our layout css not being loaded when CSS mode is set to inline
    • Fix – various CSS issues in admin
    • Compatibility – an issue when the using the filesystem before it was ready – thanks @freddela for reporting and @ssh-sftp-updater-support team for helping
    • Improvement – switch over color pickers to the new color picker dropdown from Gutenberg
    • Version – bump minimum required WordPress version to 5.9

  3. Custom Layouts 1.4.6

    • Fix – stop triggering enqueue_block_editor_assets multiple times (fixes an issue with AIOSEO)
    • Fix – an issue where (restrict by) taxonomies was not saving in admin post templates
    • Fix – an issue with the gradient picker in the template editor

202117 releases

  1. Custom Layouts 1.4.5

    • Fix – support % to position the comment number in the comment field (when the result is 1 comment)
    • Fix – an issue where the featured image expanded past the width of a column
    • Fix – reset query cache when using WooCommerce manual ordering
    • Fix – a visual issue when dragging template elements
    • Fix – an issue when using the default post template block
    • Fix – an issue with the openInNewWindow value for featured media not being init correctly
    • Fix – a PHP warning when accessing a custom field which is not scalar
    • Improvement – update block.json in order to show additional info in the plugins repo
    • Improvement – better support for editor styles across different setups (when using FSE, with the GB plugin + without)
    • New – add default and manual sort orders to layouts

  2. Custom Layouts 1.4.4

    • Fix – an regression introduced in 1.4.3 where our date elements would display todays date rather than the correct date

  3. Custom Layouts 1.4.3

    • Fix – an issue with color palette support defined via add_theme_support
    • Fix – an issue with editor styles not being loaded since WP 5.8
    • Fix – an i18n issue with formatting dates on the frontend
    • Fix – various CSS issues since WP 5.8
    • Fix – an issue when opening a layout or template modal and the canvas width was being calculated incorrectly
    • Fix – a WPML issue when not using the ATE, our templates wouldn’t load in admin
    • Fix – a WPML issue where our CSS was not being regenerated on the frontend for the correct language (after saving a template via admin)
    • Improvement – register our blocks via a json file so they are discoverable in the block library
    • Improvement – speed enhancements including preloading of some of our rest api requests
    • New – add option to open links in new window for Featured Media and Post Title blocks

  4. Custom Layouts 1.4.2

    • Fix – an issue with shortcodes not working in our text block
    • Fix – template editor – an issue where clearing a color setting (to make it unset / transparent) was causing defaults to be loaded instead
    • Fix – a PHP warning on activation
    • New – support for WPML + Advanced Translation Editor

  5. Custom Layouts 1.4.1

    • Fix – Templates – add alt text to featured images
    • New – Templates – comment count element
    • New – Templates – excerpt options – limit the manual excerpt length and hide the “read more” text
    • New – Templates + Layouts admin pages – integration with editor styles (for themes that support it) – only available with the latest Gutenberg plugin v10.6 (coming soon in WP core)

  6. Custom Layouts 1.4.0

    • Fix – Layouts – ensure layouts are not affected by global pagination when pagination is set to “none”
    • Fix – Templates – default settings had some spacing issues
    • Fix – Templates – an issue where the “image source” option was not displaying if the post didn’t have a featured image
    • Fix – Templates – save the last preview content source when saving the template editor via the admin page
    • Fix – Templates – link block – when a background had a gradient set it wasn’t applied to the hover / focus styles
    • Fix – Templates – Taxonomy block – a php warning when no taxonomy was selected
    • Improvement – added a specific class to the results when used with Search & Filter to allow for multiple search forms + results on a page
    • Improvement – modals are now larger and more responsive
    • New – Modal feature – sync preview width – modals editors now inherit the width of the layout they were launched from (for better previews)
    • New – Layouts – access saved layouts directly via the layout block – edit and create new layouts via the layout editor modal or use the block inspector.
    • New – Layouts – add template information to posts edit screen
    • New – Templates – added line height to the Typography panel
    • New – Templates – added new shortcode [custom-template] for displaying an individual post template with a single post (matches behaviour of the post template block)
    • Upgrade notice – we have changed the name of our layout shortcode – it is now [custom-layout] – your previous shortcodes will continue to work for some time.

  7. Custom Layouts 1.3.1

    • Fix – layout issue with excerpt display (when the excerpt automatically adds the read more link)
    • Fix – an issue with transients not being used correctly when there are multiple layouts on the same page
    • Fix – an issue with tax_query not being set properly
    • Fix – an issue with pagination not working correctly on the front page
    • Fix – issues with before/after text in the custom field block
    • Fix – an issue with the gradient sample template css
    • Improvement – increase template editor max preview width to 1000px
    • New – support html as a custom field type
    • New – offset query paramater (works with pagination)
    • New – post type block

  8. Custom Layouts 1.3.0

    • Release notes – https://codeamp.com/update-custom-layouts-1-3-0/
    • Fix – some query issues when taxonomy query was disabled (but the settings were still being applied)
    • Fix – some instances where our assets were not being supplied the correct version number, and consequently remained cached after an update
    • Fix – author gravatar was not scaling with font size
    • Fix – various issues to do with popovers and tooltip alignment
    • Fix – regenerate CSS feature was not fully regenerating the CSS
    • Fix – by default, select display name in author block rather than full name (full name can be empty)
    • Fix – actions were not firing (filters were ok) – we were mixing back slash and forward – now all filters + actions use forward slashes only
    • Update – required WP version to 5.7
    • Update – sample templates – addition of taxonomies + new spacing controls
    • Update – admin icons for some template blocks
    • New – Filters + actions for frontend blocks
    • New – change container size of a block to be full width or wrap to content (new toolbar button)
    • New – “fill last row” layout option – you can now stretch the last row of a grid if results do not fill all of the columns
    • New – Custom Field block – display the value of a custom field in your templates as a string (restrict by words/characters) or formatted number (with decimals), or a formatted date (custom formatting options)
    • New – Taxonomies block – list any combination of taxonomy terms in your templates
    • New – allow unit types for margins, padding and border radius – upgrade components to use BoxControl

  9. Custom Layouts 1.2.1

    • Fix – an issue when using the query restrictions the first time (in a new layout)
    • Fix – an issue with the S&F integration and Polylang
    • Fix – issues with custom classes on the layout block and layout shortcode
    • Fix – issues with the font size selector
    • Fix – a layout glitch when dragging the first block into a template
    • Fix – prevent saving of a new template via modal, until a title has been set
    • Improvement – when creating a new template via the modal, auto select it in the layout after saving
    • New – no results message – add your own message to display when the query settings return no results

  10. Custom Layouts 1.2.0

    • Improvement – Change the label of the “Custom Layout” block to “Posts Layout”
    • New – “Post Template” Block – Drop into an FSE Query block or use the post selector to display any post with any template
    • New – Query options for Layouts – select multiple post types and restrict by tag/category/taxonomy

  11. Custom Layouts 1.1.7

    • Fix – a JS error when launching the template editor modal
    • New – the template editor modal now uses the query from the layout to display the set of posts for previews
    • New – responsive columns – choose how many columns to show for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop
    • New – settings page to set responsive breakpoints + regenerate CSS

  12. Custom Layouts 1.1.6

    • Fix – missing files from bad commit

  13. Custom Layouts 1.1.5

    • Fix – issue with the order paramters on the frontend
    • Fix – issue with the sticky post paramater on the frontend
    • Fix – issue with block align not working on the frontend
    • Fix – add loaders/placeholders to layout block + admin page
    • Fix – an issue with CSS not loading due to a https bug in wp_uploads_url()

  14. Custom Layouts 1.1.4

    • New – Add visual editing to the layout admin page

  15. Custom Layouts 1.1.3

    • Fix – an issue with Post Title not being displayed correctly

  16. Custom Layouts 1.1.2

    • Fix – an issue with CSS generation
    • Fix – Rename “Custom Layouts” block to “Custom Layout”
    • New – Show a default image icon when no image is present + allow color to be changed

  17. Custom Layouts 1.1.1

Questions about Custom Layouts’s releases

What is the latest version of Custom Layouts?

1.5.1, released on Dec 29, 2025 (10 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is Custom Layouts updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 15 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2021.

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