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Custom Related Posts · Version history

Custom Related Posts changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.2
Aug 19, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
11
since 2015
In the last year
3
about one every 108 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20151 release
  • 20171 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20191 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20252 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.8.2Latest

    • Improvement: Add relations modal UI

  2. Custom Related Posts 1.8.1

    • Improvement: Compatibility with Block Editor in iFrame
    • Fix: Additional check to make sure a logged in user can only see his own posts
    • Fix: Change default post status to published only
    • Fix: Icon color in Block Editor

  3. Custom Related Posts 1.8.0

    • Feature: Add customizable fields for related posts display including author, date, and excerpt
    • Feature: Implement search type selection in the related posts modal with customizable search options (by title, ID, or default)
    • Feature: Updated cached relation data through settings
    • Feature: Setting to change title HTML tag
    • Feature: Add setting to enable or disable self-reference links in related posts output
    • Improvement: Output optional alt and title tag for images
    • Improvement: Add optional class support for custom related posts block output
    • Improvement: Wrapper div container for title and list
    • Fix: Restrict access to API endpoints to logged in users only

20252 releases

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.7.5

    • Improvement: WordPress 6.8 compatibility
    • Fix: Sanitization to prevent misuse of shortcode by contributors
    • Fix: Loading translations too early

  2. Custom Related Posts 1.7.4

    • Fix: Restrict AJAX access to prevent misuse by contributors

20241 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.7.3

    • Fix: Notice due to incorrect textdomain loading

20221 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.7.0

    • Feature: Manually set order for related posts (Block Editor only)
    • Feature: Setting to disable pinning of related posts images
    • Improvement: Image responsive sizing in some situations
    • Fix: Prevent PHP 8 deprecation notice related to usort

20191 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.6.0

    • Feature: Show featured image for related posts
    • Feature: Setting to disable relation caching
    • Improvement: New settings page
    • Improvement: Filter hook for search arguments
    • Fix: Deleting related post to post type that has been disabled

20181 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.5.0

    • Feature: Gutenberg compatibility

20171 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.4

    • Feature: Setting to open links in a new tab
    • Improvement: WordPress 4.8 compatibility
    • Improvement: $relation variable available in plugin hook

20151 release

  1. Custom Related Posts 1.0

    • Very first version of this plugin

Questions about Custom Related Posts’s releases

What is the latest version of Custom Related Posts?

1.8.2, released on Aug 19, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Custom Related Posts updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 108 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2015.

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