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Name Directory · Version history

Name Directory changelog and version history

Latest version
1.34.3
Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago)
Releases
92
since 2016
In the last year
10
about one every 39 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.3 or later

Releases each year

  • 20163 releases
  • 20178 releases
  • 201811 releases
  • 201918 releases
  • 202010 releases
  • 20218 releases
  • 202211 releases
  • 20237 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20254 releases
  • 20269 releases

20269 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.34.3Latest

    • Security: Prevent new public submissions from executing shortcodes by default; shortcode execution can be enabled for trusted entries in the admin
    • Security: Secured shortcode
    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 7.2 alpha

  2. Name Directory 1.34.2

    • Enhancement: Code optimization
    • Security: Secured a few extra variables

  3. Name Directory 1.34.1

    • Bugfix: Patched a PHP 7.4 specific security issue, thanks to PatchStack researcher hhhai for reporting this issue

  4. Name Directory 1.34.0

    • Added ability to show the submitter’s name in the directory (thank you @ryankline)
    • Bugfix: Fixed a bug where the ID of the directory might have contained a wrong number in the approve-suggestion-email
    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 7.1

  5. Name Directory 1.33.1

    • Bugfix: Don’t show the Submit form if it has been disabled in the settings (thank you Jibbius)
    • Enhancement: Revised the demo/showcase list
    • Enhancement: Tested with new WordPress 7.0, Release Candidate 2

  6. Name Directory 1.33.0

    • Enhancement: Tested with new WordPress 7.0, beta 2
    • Enhancement: Better use routing in admin
    • Security: Fixed issue passed by WordFence researcher Youssef Elouaer

  7. Name Directory 1.32.1

    • Security: Fixed issue passed by WordFence researcher duy.thai (thank you WordFence team)
    • Security: Used plugin-check to address other issues

  8. Name Directory 1.32.0

    • Feature: You can now choose which tag-type is used for the name titles (h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, strong is default)
    • Enhancement: Fixed some grammar
    • Enhancement: Rewrote some of the plugins PHP code
    • Security: Used plugin-check to address other issues

  9. Name Directory 1.31.0

    • Enhancement: Tested with new WordPress 7.0a alpha
    • Security: Fixed stored XSS attack
    • Security: Used plugin-check to address other issues

20254 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.30.3

    • Enhancement: Tested again with new WordPress 6.9
    • Bugfix: Fixed a small bug when an extra div-element was rendered

  2. Name Directory 1.30.2

    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.9
    • Enhancement: Revised the demo/showcase list
    • Enhancement: Tested and ehhanced the directory with large amounts of names
    • Enhancement: Removed Internet Explorer support from the admin javascript and removed IE notice

  3. Name Directory 1.30.1

    • Enhancement: Use admin-ajax as JS variable
    • Enhancement: Use nonces when switching name-status (ajax calls)
    • Enhancement: Updated the javascript a bit

  4. Name Directory 1.30.0

    • Feature: Pagination (finally?) in the WP-admin (as proposed by @boomlab)
    • Enhancement: WP-admin aligned styling
    • Enhancement: Removed calls to deprecated load_plugin_textdomain() to prevent warnings
    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.8

20243 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.29.2

    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.7
    • Bugfix: strip search term on frontend from leading and trailing spaces

  2. Name Directory 1.29.1

    • Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.6
    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.7
    • Bugfix: escape searchterm in the WordPress admin
    • Bugfix: add extra permission-check in ajax-status calls

  3. Name Directory 1.29.0

    • Enhancement: Improved sorting with diacritic characters
    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.5
    • Enhancement: Clarify implications of the use of HTML

20237 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.28.5

    • Bugfix: PHP showed a notice when in debug mode about missing variable, thanks @jibbius
    • Bugfix: Only select letters from published names (so for example H isn’t shown if there is one unpublished name Henk)
    • Bugfix: Don’t send an e-mail to the admin twice
    • Bugfix: Display issue with a title in the admin
    • Bugfix: Derive the starting character from the cleaned string
    • Enhancement: Added some WCAG hints to the front-end
    • Enhancement: Optimized query

  2. Name Directory 1.28.4

    • Enhancement: Sent the mail to the directory-set e-mail

  3. Name Directory 1.28.3

    • Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

  4. Name Directory 1.28.2

    • Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

  5. Name Directory 1.28.1

    • Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

  6. Name Directory 1.28.0

    • Bugfix: (Finally!) fixed the issue that editing a names HTML doesn’t break formatting (with quotes)
    • Feature: Choose whether you want to show the name count
    • Feature: Choose whether you want to show the instructions on the front-end
    • Feature: Set an e-mail address (per directory) which receives new-submission notifications
    • Enhancement: The directory settings screen: readability, now divided into sections, bit more spacey
    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.3
    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.4 Beta
    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.5 Nightly
    • Enhancement: Reviced the public demo list

  7. Name Directory 1.27.2

    • Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.2
    • Bugfix: Quick Import nonce check

202211 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.27.1

    • Enhancement: Also css-hide images on the ‘Read more’-feature
    • Bugfix: Closed the div surrounding reCaptha
    • Bugfix: Trim the name when importing names, so the correct starting letter will be selected
    • Bugfix: Display the name correctly use entity_decode

  2. Name Directory 1.27.0

    • Feature: Choose whether an admin has to approve a submitted name first
    • Enhancement: Nicer error message on (quick) import

  3. Name Directory 1.26.1

  4. Name Directory 1.26.0

  5. Name Directory 1.25.5

  6. Name Directory 1.25.4

  7. Name Directory 1.25.3

  8. Name Directory 1.25.2

  9. Name Directory 1.25.1

  10. Name Directory 1.25.0

  11. Name Directory 1.24.0

20218 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.23.2

  2. Name Directory 1.23.1

  3. Name Directory 1.23.0

  4. Name Directory 1.22

  5. Name Directory 1.20

  6. Name Directory 1.19

  7. Name Directory 1.18.1

  8. Name Directory 1.18

202010 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.17.4

  2. Name Directory 1.17.3

  3. Name Directory 1.17.2

  4. Name Directory 1.17.1

  5. Name Directory 1.17

  6. Name Directory 1.16.1

  7. Name Directory 1.16

  8. Name Directory 1.15.6

  9. Name Directory 1.15.5

  10. Name Directory 1.15.4

201918 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.15.3

  2. Name Directory 1.15.2

  3. Name Directory 1.15.1

  4. Name Directory 1.15

  5. Name Directory 1.14.2

  6. Name Directory 1.14.1

  7. Name Directory 1.14

  8. Name Directory 1.13.7

  9. Name Directory 1.13.6

  10. Name Directory 1.13.5

  11. Name Directory 1.13.4

  12. Name Directory 1.13.3

  13. Name Directory 1.13.2

  14. Name Directory 1.13.1

  15. Name Directory 1.13

  16. Name Directory 1.12

  17. Name Directory 1.11.6

  18. Name Directory 1.11.5

201811 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.11.4

  2. Name Directory 1.11.3

  3. Name Directory 1.11.2

  4. Name Directory 1.11.1

  5. Name Directory 1.11

  6. Name Directory 1.10

  7. Name Directory 1.9.7

  8. Name Directory 1.9.6

  9. Name Directory 1.9.5

  10. Name Directory 1.9.4

  11. Name Directory 1.9.3

20178 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.9.2

  2. Name Directory 1.9.1

  3. Name Directory 1.9.0

  4. Name Directory 1.8.1

  5. Name Directory 1.8.0

  6. Name Directory 1.7.15

  7. Name Directory 1.7.14

  8. Name Directory 1.7.13

20163 releases

  1. Name Directory 1.7.12

  2. Name Directory 1.7.11

  3. Name Directory 1.7.10

Questions about Name Directory’s releases

What is the latest version of Name Directory?

1.34.3, released on Nov 4, 2026 (5 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.3 or later.

How often is Name Directory updated?

10 releases in the last year, about one every 39 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2016.

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