Novelist · Version history
Novelist changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 1.4.0
- Aug 29, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Releases
- 25
- since 2016
- In the last year
- 1
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 8.0 or later
Releases each year
- 20169 releases
- 20173 releases
- 20181 release
- 20193 releases
- 20212 releases
- 20232 releases
- 20241 release
- 20253 releases
- 20261 release
20261 release
Novelist 1.4.0Latest
- Requires PHP 8.0+
- Security: Add nonce check to system info download
20253 releases
Novelist 1.3.0
- Requires PHP 7.4+
- New: CSV book importer in Books > Tools
Novelist 1.3.0-beta1
Novelist 1.2.4
- Security Fix (XSS)
- Fix: Deprecation warning: Creation of dynamic property Novelist_Book::$post_type
20241 release
Novelist 1.2.3
- Security Fix (CSRF)
20232 releases
Novelist 1.2.2
- Fix: Potential fatal error on certain settings pages.
Novelist 1.2.1
- Security Fix: Add sanitization to the book info fields to disallow some HTML.
20212 releases
Novelist 1.1.11
- New: Each book’s ID number is now displayed on the admin page.
- New: The [show-book] shortcode can now accept a book ID instead of the title. Example: [show-book id="10"]
Novelist 1.1.10
- Fix: Ensure all books are available to be selected in Novelist Book widget dropdown. (If you had more than 200 books, some may not have appeared in the dropdown.)
20193 releases
Novelist 1.1.9
- Fix: Add fallback if array_key_first() function doesn’t exist (PHP versions lower than 7.3).
Novelist 1.1.8
- Fix: Fix problem with first “Add-Ons” settings section not saving.
Novelist 1.1.7
- Fix: “continue targeting switch is equivalent to break” error with PHP 7.3.
20181 release
Novelist 1.1.6
- New: Added ability to reorder purchase links.
20173 releases
Novelist 1.1.5
- Fix old style constructor in the Browser class.
- Updated documentation URLs.
Novelist 1.1.4
- Fix name of templates folder in FAQ.
- You can now show a grid of specific books in the [novelist-books] shortcode using the ids attribute.
- Fixed undefined index notices if buttons weren’t saved yet.
Novelist 1.1.3
- Change the way book info is added to the_content, so it should appear at the beginning rather than the end. This should fix an issue with social share links incorrectly being added before book info rather than after.
20169 releases
Novelist 1.1.2
- You can now change the retail store names without losing existing links. Just make sure you don’t change the “Store ID” (new field in Purchase Links settings).
Novelist 1.1.1
- Fixed problem with custom button colours not working.
- [novelist-books] – Now passing $atts as a parameter to actions.
- [novelist-books] – Added an extra attribute for display, which is purely handled by an action. This allows third party plugins to easily configure their own extra attributes in a configurable order.
Novelist 1.1.0
- New: Added “Default Cover Image” setting in Settings > Book Layout > Settings.
- [novelist-books] shortcode: Changed order by publication date argument to use meta_value_num instead of meta_value.
- Tweaked media upload script to allow for displaying specific sizes.
- Tools: You can now choose to export all settings or only the book layout. This is useful for transferring book layouts from one site to another, while leaving the other settings in tact.
- New button above visual editor for aiding in inserting a book grid.
- Changed label font-weights from bold to 600 because bold looked super bold in WP 4.6.
- Prevented the “Book Title” field from defaulting to “Audo Draft” when creating a new book due to previous update.
- Fixed an issue with the book cover showing up blank when first uploading on the Add/Edit Book page.
- “Reset Tab” button now only resets the settings in that specific sub-section within a tab. Also renamed the button to “Reset Section”.
Novelist 1.0.5
- Added an option to allow add-ons to disable editing of custom fields in the Book Layout.
- Added some actions and filters to purchase link formatting and settings area.
- Added new method to Novelist_Book for getting the formatted purchase links.
- Added Novelist class names to <body> tag if viewing a Novelist archive/singular page.
- Books on the series taxonomy archive are now listed in order of the series number (ascending).
- Added wpautop filter to Excerpt field.
- Adjusted the [novelist-series-grid] shortcode so a “No Books Found” error doesn’t appear if there are no standalones.
- Fixed an error that appears in the Book Layout builder if a field gets removed but is still stuck in the builder.
- Added new settings field callback for numbers (not in use).
- Added new settings field callback for image dimensions (not in use).
- Modified the get_title() method in Novelist_Book. If no book title is filled out then it falls back to using the post title.
- Updated language files.
Novelist 1.0.4
- You can now enter “none” in the series parameter in the [novelist-books] shortcode to only show books that don’t have a series.
- Added “offset” parameter to the [novelist-books] shortcode. You can use this to exclude the first x number of books from the results. Example: [novelist-books offset="1"] would skip the first result and display all the others.
- Added a “series-number” parameter to the [novelist-books] shortcode. If set to “true” then the book’s series number will be displayed.
- New shortcode: [novelist-series-grid]. This shortcode displays the [novelist-books] shortcode for every single series. It’s like manually using [novelist-books series="Series Name"] for every series you have, but this new shortcode does it automatically. More details: https://novelistplugin.com/doc…
Novelist 1.0.3
- Added CSS for textareas in meta boxes. Also added styles for a few generic wrapper CSS classes.
- Added new Extensions page under “Books”.
- Modified the sanitization on ‘synopsis’, ‘excerpt’, and ‘extra’ fields to allow for iframes.
- Added support for old [books-in] shortcode (but marked it as deprecated, so don’t use it).
- Added database upgrades functionality.
- Added a piece of JS for more generic sortable fields (not necessarily book layouts).
- Added filter for “Settings Reset” values: novelist/settings/restore-defaults
- Added JavaScript and CSS to support repeater meta fields (not currently used).
- Added a new widget for displaying books in a series.
- Fixed an issue where books would disappear from the admin “All Books” page if you checked to hide them from archives.
- Shortcodes now work in book templates.
Novelist 1.0.2
- Fixed a problem with “Other books in this series” template appearing even if there are no other books in the series.
- Added new functions for future use.
- Added new setting in Book Layout > Settings for specifying the size of the book cover image.
Novelist 1.0.1
- Updated get_terms() usage to comply with new 4.5 format.
- Added progress bar CSS for future batch actions.
- Added update_value method to Novelist_Book.
- Tested with WordPress 4.5.
Novelist 1.0.0
- Initial release.
Questions about Novelist’s releases
What is the latest version of Novelist?
1.4.0, released on Aug 29, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.0 or later.
How often is Novelist updated?
One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from April 2016.
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