Gallery for Google Photos · Version history
Gallery for Google Photos changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 1.3.1
- Oct 30, 2026 (10 days ago)
- Releases
- 14
- since 2024
- In the last year
- 5
- about one every 28 days
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 7.1 or later
Releases each year
- 20248 releases
- 20251 release
- 20265 releases
20265 releases
Gallery for Google Photos 1.3.1Latest
- New: Gallery Templates – 30 ready-made gallery templates (13 Free, 17 Pro) in the editor toolbar. Pro templates are locked in the free version.
- New: Add a shared Google Photos album to a gallery. Paste the album link and click Save & Sync — no Google Client ID or Client Secret needed.
- New: “Keep photos on Google Photos” — album photos load straight from Google and use no space on your server. Turn it off to copy them to your Media Library instead.
- Improved: Without a Client ID and Client Secret the block now shows the album link first, with a short note that “Select from Google Photos” needs them.
- Improved: Short video tutorials — a “▶” link at the bottom of the main settings panels opens that feature’s 25-second video on YouTube.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.3.0
- New (Pro): Timeline layout — group photos by day / month / year with sticky date headers.
- New (Pro): Live Event / Wedding Mode — the gallery refreshes on its own and shows newly synced photos with no reload; choose a sync interval of 15 minutes, hourly, or daily.
- New (Pro): Multi-album per gallery — pull from several shared albums with an optional frontend album-tab switcher.
- New (Pro): Client Picks (Proofing) — visitors select photos and submit them; the selection is emailed to you and saved under Google Photos → Client Picks, with optional per-photo comments.
- New (Pro): Download as ZIP — visitors download the whole gallery as one ZIP of the local originals.
- New (Pro): Gallery expiry — auto-hide a gallery after a chosen date with a custom message.
- New (Pro): Design Presets — one-click looks (Clean Grid, Dark Portfolio, Polaroid, Magazine, and more) plus save your own.
- New (Pro): Advanced Search — fuzzy / typo-tolerant matching, “/” focus shortcut, recent searches, “Did you mean…”, and a sticky search bar.
- New (Pro): EXIF display in the lightbox — camera, lens, aperture, shutter, and ISO.
- New (Pro): Gallery Analytics — views and lightbox opens with a “most viewed” dashboard.
- New (Pro): Media Cleanup Manager — per-gallery storage, orphaned-photo cleanup, and “delete photos with gallery”.
- Security: sanitized the per-image link (blocks javascript: URIs) and hardened album-URL fetching against SSRF.
- Improved: added uninstall cleanup for stored credentials/tokens; removed retired Library-API dead code.
- New: Live search bar with voice search, autocomplete (titles + dates), highlighted matches, live result count, and year filter chips — each toggleable.
- New: Visual filter presets (Grayscale, Sepia, Vintage, Warm, Cool) with an optional reveal-original-on-hover transition.
- New: Focal point crop control — set one crop focus for all images with a live preview, plus an optional per-image override.
- New: Ken Burns motion — adjustable continuous zoom / pan on images.
- New: Meta overlay — show each photo’s date and dimensions on hover.
- New: Frontend sort dropdown (Newest / Oldest / Random), photo count badge, and preview limit with a “View all” button.
- New: Lightbox social share buttons (Facebook / X / Pinterest / Copy link) and deep-link to a photo via the URL.
- New: Optional download button in the lightbox toolbar.
- New: Import / Export gallery configuration as JSON.
- New: Memories / Stories layout.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.2.2
- Minor bug fix.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.2.1
- Important: Google retired the old Photos Library API, so older galleries may stop showing images. Now uses Google’s new Photos Picker — reconnect your account and re-select your photos (they import into your Media Library and keep working).
- New: video support, Grid/Masonry/Carousel layouts, Load More & Pagination, captions, and image aspect-ratio & border controls.
- Performance/SEO: lazy-load with blur placeholder, responsive images (srcset), Schema.org image markup, and per-image alt text.
- Security: fixed a stored XSS in the lightbox; made Google credentials (Client ID/Secret/Refresh Token) write-only and server-side only; closed the earlier OAuth token exposure.
- Improved: redesigned authorization flow; resolved all Plugin Check findings; documented external services and bundled third-party libraries.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.9
- Frontend useAjax use.
20251 release
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.8
- Extra code remove.
20248 releases
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.7
- Some issues problem.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.6
- No publicly documented resource for your compressed content
- Undocumented use of a 3rd Party / external service
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.5
- Trademark issues solved
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.4
- Solved the problem where album list images were not found.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.3
- Fixed the popup image resolution.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.2
- Load more button update.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.1
- Authorization issues fixed.
Gallery for Google Photos 1.0.0
- Initial Release
Questions about Gallery for Google Photos’s releases
What is the latest version of Gallery for Google Photos?
1.3.1, released on Oct 30, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.1 or later.
How often is Gallery for Google Photos updated?
5 releases in the last year, about one every 28 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2024.
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