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Head & Footer Code · Version history

Head & Footer Code changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.9
Aug 31, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
35
since 2019
In the last year
11
about one every 27 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20193 releases
  • 20204 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20244 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 202610 releases

202610 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.5.9Latest

    • Fix: JSON-LD and other article/category specific code saved before 1.5.8 could show backslash-escaped quotes; display is now corrected automatically without modifying stored post/term meta (thanks @sheenaljain for report)

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.5.8

    • Fix: WP Plugin Check errors and warnings
    • Test: WordPress 7.1-RC3 and Twenty Twenty-Five 1.5 and Twenty Fifteen 4.2
    • Improve: Additional layer of protection for post and taxonomy meta boxes against unpriviledged roles

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.5.7

    • Improve: Allow Programmable Search Engine tags (PageMap, DataObject and Attribute)
    • Test: WordPress 7.0-RC2

  4. Head & Footer Code 1.5.6

    • Fix: update routine 10 infinite loop on sites with huge number of posts (10k+)
    • Test: WordPress 7.0-beta6

  5. Head & Footer Code 1.5.5

    • Fix: Remove set_time_limit from update.php to prevent fatal error on servers where it’s disabled

  6. Head & Footer Code 1.5.4

    • New: Add dynamic support for all public taxonomies (eg, Tags, Product Categories)
    • Fix: There was no Settings saved. notification
    • Fix: Allow id, dir, class and data-* attribute for script, style, link and iframe tags.
    • Change: Move review CTA to the bottom of the Settings page
    • Change: Increased minimum requirements to WordPress 5.2 and PHP 5.6
    • Cleanup: Removed wp_body_open fallback (no longer needed with WP 5.2+ requirement)
    • Improve: Introduce Plugin_Info class for cleaner constant management
    • Optimize: Internal code refactoring for better maintainability and naming clarity

  7. Head & Footer Code 1.5.3

    • Fix: Allow display and visibility CSS properties for KSES
    • Fix: Category specific code was double escaped
    • Improve: DRY Front rendering
    • Improve: DRY plugin activation handling
    • Improve: Post grid custom code indicators
    • Improve: Resolve some PCP errors and warnings
    • Test: PHP 8.4.15, WordPress 6.9.1, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.4
    • Test: PHP 8.5.3, WordPress 7.0-beta3, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.4
    • Test: PHP 5.6.20, WordPress 5.2.23, Twenty Ninetin 1.4

  8. Head & Footer Code 1.5.2

    • Fix: Allow all W3C standard attributes for iframe
    • Test: WordPress 7.0-beta2

  9. Head & Footer Code 1.5.1

    • Fix: Code editor missing on categories
    • Cleanup: Remove debugging info
    • Update: Screenshots

  10. Head & Footer Code 1.5.0

    • Test: WordPress 7.0-beta1, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.4, PHP 8.5.3
    • Fix: Missing code editor when creating a new article
    • Fix: Incorrect use of
    • Improve: Security (validate settings save data, better code filtering with included opening SCRIPT and STYLE tags)
    • Optimize: Code editor on articles
    • Optimize: Settings maintainability

20257 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.4.6

    • Test: WordPress 6.9RC3, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.3, PHP 8.4.15

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.4.5

    • Fix: Compatibility with Jetpack > Writing > Composing > Compose using shortcode to embed media from popular sites
    • Fix: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in update.php
    • Test: WordPress 6.8.1, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.2, Jetpack 14.7

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.4.4

    • Fix: Relaxed filtering to allow preloadans security/privacy attributes.

  4. Head & Footer Code 1.4.3

    • Fix: Relaxed filtering to allow blocks with <, >, => characters and type="application/ld+json" for structured data (rich snippets), following stricter sanitization introduced in 1.4.0.

  5. Head & Footer Code 1.4.2

    • Fix: meta tag broken by security introduced in 1.4.0

  6. Head & Footer Code 1.4.1

    • Fix: hreflang link broken by security introduced in 1.4.0

  7. Head & Footer Code 1.4.0

    • Test: WordPress 6.8-RC3, Twenty Twenty-Five 1.1, Twenty Twenty-Three 1.6, Astra 4.9.2 and PHP 8.3.17
    • Test: WordPress 4.9.26, Twenty Seventeen 1.7 and PHP 5.5.38
    • Unclutter Settings page
    • Improve: Security
    • Improve: Refactor and reorganise codebase
    • auhfc_settings() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Main::settings()
    • auhfc_is_homepage_blog_posts() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::is_homepage_blog_posts()
    • auhfc_add_to_homepage_paged() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::add_to_homepage_paged()
    • sanitize_html_classes() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::sanitize_html_classes()
    • auhfc_allowed_code() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::allowed_html()
    • auhfc_form_allowed_code() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::form_allowed_html()
    • auhfc_html2code -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::html2code()
    • auhfc_get_meta() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::get_meta()
    • auhfc_get_post_type() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::get_post_type()
    • auhfc_print_sitewide() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::print_sitewide()
    • auhfc_out() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Common::out()
    • auhfc_head_note() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Settings::head_note()
    • auhfc_body_note() -> Techwebux\Hfc\Settings::body_note()

20244 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.3.7

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.3.6

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.3.5

  4. Head & Footer Code 1.3.4

20233 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.3.3

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.3.2

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.3.1

20222 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.3.0

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.2.4

20212 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.2.3

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.2.2

20204 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.2.1

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.2

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.1.1

  4. Head & Footer Code 1.1.0

20193 releases

  1. Head & Footer Code 1.0.9.1

  2. Head & Footer Code 1.0.9

  3. Head & Footer Code 1.0.8

Questions about Head & Footer Code’s releases

What is the latest version of Head & Footer Code?

1.5.9, released on Aug 31, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Head & Footer Code updated?

11 releases in the last year, about one every 27 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2019.

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