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Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) · Version history

Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) changelog and version history

Latest version
9.12.3
Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago)
Releases
64
since 2017
In the last year
14
about one every 27 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20177 releases
  • 20187 releases
  • 20196 releases
  • 20206 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20227 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20259 releases
  • 202613 releases

202613 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.12.3Latest

    • 🔒 Security: Fixed a stored XSS in Comparison, Lightbox, Magnifier and Carousel settings (CVE-2026-118056).
    • 🔒 Security: “Who can edit” now allows only Editors and Administrators, and only an administrator can change it.
    • 🔒 Security: The editor preview now checks the user’s permission.
    • ✨ Improvement: Image Hover pages now show only Image Hover notices, not notices from other plugins.
    • ✨ Improvement: A cleaner license dialog, and the license key field is no longer cut off.

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.12.2

    • 🐛 Fix: On PHP 8, an empty or text value in a number setting no longer stops the page right after the gallery (Lightbox 2 Z-index, Comparison 4 strips, Filter 2 columns, and styles saved before version 9.3)
    • 🐛 Fix: The Image Hover Effects Ultimate widget is back on the Widgets screen and the Image Hover Ultimate element is back in WPBakery Page Builder, both had stopped loading since 9.10.5
    • ✨ Improvement: The plugin’s own colored icon now shows for the Image Hover Ultimate element in WPBakery (it was a blank placeholder) and for the Image Hover widget in Elementor (it was grey)
    • ✨ Improvement: Elementor lists the plugin once, as the Image Hover widget: the classic Image Hover Effects Ultimate widget no longer shows in the Elementor panel, and pages that already use it keep working
    • 🐛 Fix: Entrance animations with Looping turned on play and repeat again, before they did not play at all
    • 🐛 Fix: Custom CSS with everyday words such as font-style saves again, only HTML tags are refused, and a message now tells you why instead of the Save button spinning
    • 🐛 Fix: A shortcode whose style was deleted now shows visitors nothing, as the Delete dialog says, while administrators still see a note with the missing style ID
    • 🐛 Fix: Load More works again for your visitors in Display Post and in styles with dynamic loading, with the button and with infinite scroll, and it now keeps to the posts, categories and tags you chose
    • 🔒 Security: Load More now sends only the style and the page number, and the posts are chosen on the server from the style’s saved settings, so the query can’t be changed from the browser
    • 🐛 Fix: The On Touch Play? setting of Carousel 2 (Flipster) now works; carousels saved with No no longer move with a swipe
    • 🐛 Fix: Filter & Sorting no longer leaves items blank when their hover style has an entrance animation, every item now shows, also after picking a filter
    • 🐛 Fix: The Filter 1 design now starts with the category “All Members” instead of “All Menbers”
    • 🐛 Fix: In the style editor, the preview of Carousel 1 no longer stretches very tall with the arrows and dots far below the slides
    • 🐛 Fix: Corrected the “Comparison Offset” label in the Comparison effect settings, and the Spacing field of the Carousel 2 (Flipster) settings, which was labeled Autoplay Speed

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.12.1

    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned the Image Hover page, every effect type now has a card showing its number of ready made layouts and how many styles you saved, with quick links to its templates, docs and demo
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned the Create New page, every design now has its own preview card and “Use this design” button, and naming the new style happens in a clean dialog
    • ✨ Improvement: Refreshed the style editor look, cleaner header, tabs, setting cards, fields, preview bar and item form, all your saved styles and settings stay exactly the same
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned the “How to use?” menu, every guide now has an icon and a short line on what it covers, with a link to browse all documentation
    • ✨ Improvement: New getting started video on the Getting Started page and the plugin page

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.12.0

    • 🆕 New: Danger zone on the Settings page, delete all shortcodes, image items and settings at once after typing DELETE to confirm, or choose to remove all plugin data when the plugin is deleted (deactivating never removes data)
    • 🆕 New: License card on the Settings page, activate or change your Pro license key and see its plan, expiry date and status without going to the Plugins screen
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned Settings page with grouped cards, on/off switches, a live save status for every option and quick links to docs and support
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned Shortcode page with one click copy for the shortcode and PHP code, newest shortcodes first, quick search, item counts, and clear dialogs for import, clone and delete
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned Getting Started page with the plugin header menu, a welcome video, a three step quick start, page builder guides, help resources and your license status
    • ✨ Improvement: Redesigned Account page with the plugin header menu, a clear license overview, a plan badge, tidy billing details and an easy to read payments list
    • ✨ Improvement: Data cleanup is safe for sites that also run Flipbox, the shared import table and shared settings are never removed, only Image Hover’s own entries
    • 🐛 Fix: Adding HTML with attributes (for example a link) to an image item description caused a critical error in the preview and on the page, item data is now sanitized value by value so it stays valid, and items already saved with this problem are recovered automatically
    • 🐛 Fix: Font Awesome setting showed neither Yes or No on new installs, it now shows as on, which matches how it already worked
    • 🐛 Fix: Admin notices from other plugins no longer appear in the middle of the Settings form

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.8

    • ✨ Improvement: The review notice and the upgrade notice never appear at the same time, so the screen is not stacked with plugin notices
    • 🐛 Fix: Save button in the editor sidebar could be pushed below the visible screen area, forcing users to zoom the browser out to reach it, the settings panel now scrolls correctly and the Save bar stays pinned to the bottom of the sidebar on any screen height

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.7

    • 🐛 Fix: Edit and rearrange modals now populate correctly for image items saved on older versions, legacy rawdata stored with extra backslash escaping is decoded with a stripslashes fallback that matches the render paths
    • 🐛 Fix: Removed Undefined array key PHP warnings on the frontend when rendering General effects created on older versions where heading, description or button fields were not stored, missing item fields are now checked safely

  7. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.6

    • 🆕 New: Added native Gutenberg block, insert and preview Image Hover Effect styles directly from the WordPress block editor without writing shortcodes
    • 🆕 New: Style selector and Edit Style button placed in the block’s Inspector Controls sidebar, keeping the editor canvas clean with only the live preview
    • 🆕 New: Plugin’s branded SVG icon displayed in the Gutenberg block inserter
    • ✨ Improvement: All CSS (base styles, module-specific styles, and per-shortcode stylesheet) is fully inlined during block editor REST rendering so the hover effect preview displays correctly without relying on wp_footer

  8. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.5

    • 🔒 Security: Fixed path traversal vulnerability in template import, file reads are now restricted within the plugin directory using realpath() validation
    • 🔒 Security: Fixed missing authorization check in AJAX action handler, requests now require proper user permissions
    • 🔒 Security: Sanitized CSS output in frontend style block to prevent potential </style> injection
    • 🔒 Security: Strip </style> tags from custom CSS before storing to database
    • 🐛 Fix: Renamed “Save” button to “Rename” in the editor header to avoid confusion with the main Save button
    • ✨ Improvement: Added “How to use?” documentation link in the editor header for quick access to getting started guide

  9. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.4

    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed Flipbox back side image not displaying across all styles, corrected invalid CSS syntax where !important was placed inside url() (Style 1) and replaced background shorthand with background-image to prevent unintended property resets
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed Flipbox back side overlay color not working, background image is now applied to the correct layer (backend:after) so the admin-configured background color properly acts as a semi-transparent overlay on top of the image
    • ✨ Improvement: Replaced background-size: 100% 100% with background-size: cover and added background-position: center center and background-repeat: no-repeat for better image rendering across all Flipbox styles

  10. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.3

    • ✨ Improvement: Added dynamic “Edit Shortcode” button to Elementor Widget for quick access to the styling dashboard
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved issue where the shortcode edit button URL wouldn’t update on dropdown change
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed CSS and JS failing to load on the plugin’s internal backend template listing and editor pages
    • 🐛 Fix: Corrected asset isolation logic in the iframe preview which accidentally blocked some internal scripts
    • 🐛 Fix: Whitelisted missing external dependencies (e.g., image zoom, isotope) in the iframe preview to prevent layout breaks
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved CSS handle collisions between the Lightbox and Magnifier modules which caused Lightbox styles to fail loading
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed raw CSS text leaking onto the screen in nested modules (e.g., Filter) by properly sanitizing content before shortcode evaluation

  11. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.2

    • 🆕 New: Added Elementor Widget for Image Hover Effects, select and embed shortcodes directly from the Elementor editor
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved CSS and JS not loading in the Elementor editor for module-specific styles (Flipbox, General, Carousel, etc.)
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed inline CSS and JS not rendering during Elementor AJAX widget re-renders
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed styles missing after saving and reloading the Elementor editor
    • ✨ Improvement: Registered base CSS/JS assets for proper Elementor dependency resolution

  12. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.1

    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved PHP 8.4 compatibility issue with mb_ereg_replace function
    • ✨ Improvement: Replaced dashicon with a custom SVG icon in the admin sidebar for a cleaner branded appearance
    • ✨ Improvement: Updated admin panel logo from PNG to SVG format in the header and Getting Started page
    • ✨ Improvement: Hardcoded total template count to 150+ in the dashboard for accurate display
    • 🔄 Update: Replaced all demo image URLs with new CDN format using WebP for faster loading

  13. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.11.0

    • 🆕 New: Added item count display for each module in the Image Hover dashboard
    • 🆕 New: Added Create New and Import buttons to the Shortcode page header
    • 🆕 New: Implemented iframe-based preview for strict style isolation and better performance
    • 🆕 New: Added responsive device controls (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile) with live preview scaling
    • ✨ Improvement: Moved inline CSS to external admin stylesheet for better maintainability
    • ✨ Improvement: Simplified template selection, all templates now visible directly on the effect page
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed CSS specificity issues where saved styles could override live preview changes
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved backward compatibility issues with legacy shortcode data
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved Pro feature access issues with legacy license status

20259 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.6

    • 🆕 New: Conditional asset loading, Waypoints and Touch scripts only load when enabled in settings
    • 🆕 New: Added cache-busting for admin assets via file modification time
    • ✨ Improvement: Hardened AJAX and REST flows with stricter nonce verification
    • 🐛 Fix: Minor stability fixes across shortcode rendering and widget output escaping
    • 🔒 Fix: Fixed security issue in the Lightbox module

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.5

    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved WordPress 6.7 “_load_textdomain_just_in_time” notice
    • 🐛 Fix: Allowed safe HTML in Short Description fields using wp_kses_post
    • ✨ Improvement: Deferred heavy operations to later hooks for better performance

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.4

    • 🆕 New: Added Getting Started page for new users
    • 🎨 Update: Refreshed UI and UX across the admin panel
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed HTML tags not rendering in Lightbox title and description fields
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed HTML tags not rendering in button text across all modules
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed Visual Composer integration, dropdown now correctly passes Style ID
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed PHP 8.2 deprecation warning for dynamic properties
    • ✨ Improvement: Enhanced error handling and input validation throughout the shortcode system

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.3

    • 🔒 Fix: Resolved all reported security vulnerabilities
    • ✨ Improvement: Improved input sanitization and output escaping throughout the plugin
    • ✨ Improvement: Updated all database queries to use $wpdb->prepare()

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.2

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.1

  7. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.10.0

    • 🆕 New: Integrated Freemius SDK for license management and Pro upgrades
    • 🆕 New: Added PSR-4 namespacing and Composer autoloading
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved responsive layout issues across multiple modules

  8. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.7

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.8
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved shortcode listing display issue
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed icon display issue in admin panel

  9. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.6

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.7.2
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed color changes not saving correctly in some configurations

20243 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.5

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.7
    • 🐛 Fix: Fixed data table search functionality

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.4

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.6.2
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved AJAX-related bugs

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.3

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.4.3
    • ✨ Updated Admin AJAX handling

20234 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.2

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.1

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.9.0

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.2.2
    • 🐛 Fix: Resolved custom CSS issues

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.6

20227 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.5

    • ✅ Compatible with WordPress 6.1.1
    • 🔒 Fix: Resolved XSS security issues

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.4

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.3

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.2

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.1

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.8.0

  7. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.7.2

20212 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.7.1

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.7.0

20206 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.4.0

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.3.4

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.3.3

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.3.2

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.3.1

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.3.0

20196 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.2

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.1

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 9.0

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.9

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.8

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.7

20187 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.6

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.5

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.4

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.3

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.2

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.1

  7. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 8.0

20177 releases

  1. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 7.6

  2. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 7.5

  3. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 7.3

  4. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 7.2

  5. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 6.9.1

  6. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 6.9

  7. Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) 6.8.2

Questions about Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier )’s releases

What is the latest version of Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier )?

9.12.3, released on Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier ) updated?

14 releases in the last year, about one every 27 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2017.

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