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Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) · Version history

Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) changelog and version history

Latest version
0.5.9.1
Oct 21, 2026 (19 days ago)
Releases
29
since 2016
In the last year
2
about one every 41 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 201610 releases
  • 20173 releases
  • 20184 releases
  • 20203 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20232 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20252 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.9.1Latest

    • Hotfix: Security fix (contributor+ users only). Implemented strict trigger element attribute validation.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.9

    • Enhancement: Refactor settings import to use textarea input.
    • Fix: Only trigger import/export tab handlers on init.
    • Security: Proper import nonce validation.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20252 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.8.5

    • Hotfix: Security fix (administrators only).
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.8.4

    • Hotfix: Security fix (registered users with edit capabilities only).
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20241 release

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.8.2

    • Hotfix: Security fix (contributor+ users only).
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20232 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.8.1

    • Fix: Incomplete merge of JS code.
    • Enhancement: Link close option is now opt-in.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.8

    • New: Filter ocs_enable_frontend, modify enable frontend setting.
    • New: Filter ocs_enable_assets, can be used to disable frontend assets. #114
    • New: Filter ocs_inline_styles, modify the plugin inline styles.
    • Enhancement: Improve init handler for frontend.
    • Enhancement: Changed the default hooks for easier onboarding as the WP core hooks are now supported by most themes.
    • Enhancement: Improve adding inline styles.
    • Enhancement: Add rel="nofollow" XFN attribute to link type element triggers. #116
    • Fix: JS multiple events as string param.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20221 release

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.7.1

    • Fix: Class concatenation bug. #104 (Props: Samuele Mancuso)
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20211 release

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.7

    • Enhancement: Improved compatibility with the toolbar and fixed elements (legacy CSS mode).
    • Enhancement: Update to data attributes.
    • Enhancement: New filter ocs_sidebar_attributes.
    • Enhancement: New filter ocs_sidebar_element.
    • Enhancement: Added event action manager.
    • Enhancement: Do not add the same triggers again on reinit.
    • Enhancement: Load widget admin assets in site head instead of each widget separately.
    • UI Use WP meta box functions for setting pages to enhance UI compatibility.
    • Fix: Set slidebars script to plugin version to prevent browser cache issues.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20203 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.6

    • Feature: Overwrite hook priority within the plugin settings.
    • Feature: Basic theme hook setup validator. #95
    • Enhancement: Reorder settings page fields.
    • Enhancement: Improve Slidebars init and allow reinit.
    • Enhancement: Added ocs_default_settings and ocs_default_sidebar_settings filters.
    • Fix: Make sure sidebars correctly overwrite global settings. #91
    • Fix: Escape all translated strings for HTML.
    • Fix: Add rel="noopener noreferrer" to all links that open in a new tab.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.5

    • Compatibility: Changed the CSS to be compatible with position: sticky; elements. #83
    • Compatibility: Fix default before and after widget args. Widget element changed to <div> instead of <li>. #88
    • Enhancement: Late init option. #81
    • Enhancement: Allow minimum value of 0 for numeric settings.
    • Fix: Gutenberg notice that OCS couldn’t be initialized.
    • UI: Rename control elements to triggers (uniform names).
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  3. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.4

    • Compatibility: Support wp_body_open as website_before hook introduced in WordPress 5.2. #70
    • Enhancement: Allow Genesis Framework hooks to be overwritten in respect for wp_body_open.
    • Enhancement: Use CSS vh unit for canvas container min-height instead of JavaScript.
    • Enhancement: Better use of WP core UI elements.
    • Enhancement: Code quality improvements.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20184 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.3

    • Enhancement: Don’t render triggers of disabled sidebars if auto-hide is enabled. #56
    • Enhancement: Support wp_footer as website_after hook. (Not compatible with all themes!)
    • Enhancement: Filters to overwrite website_before and website_after hook priorities.
    • Enhancement: Do not render inactive trigger buttons if auto-hide is enabled.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.2

    • Feature: New filter: ocs_is_sidebar_enabled to filter whether a sidebar should be rendered or not.
    • Enhancement/Refactoring: Class autoloader.

  3. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5.1

    • Fix: Bug with creating sidebars on a new installation. #52
    • Enhancement/Refactoring: Control trigger rendering.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  4. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.5

    • Feature: Make closing the slidebar after clicking a link an option. #47 & #48
    • Feature: Add icon options in control trigger API and shortcode.
    • Feature: Enhance widget UI with advanced options for control triggers. #27
    • Enhancement: Setting page JS and UI enhancements.
    • Enhancement: Use data attributes to conform W3C HTML5 specifications. #50
    • Enhancement: Add support links on plugins overview page.
    • Refactoring: Separate classes for tabs, page and settings/validation. Enhances plugin option validation. #38
    • Refactoring: Global OCS_DOMAIN constant.
    • Updated/Added: Screenshots.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20173 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.4.2

    • Enhancement: Keep scrollbar visible when scroll lock is active. #44 & PR #45
    • Enhancement: (Slidebars library) Make sure that percentage based widths are rounded to actual pixels to prevent 1px differences on display.
    • Fix: PHP Notice on fixed_elements key.
    • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 4.9
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.4.1

    • Fix: Loading the correct menu in an off-canvas sidebar was not working correctly. #37
    • Fix: Scroll lock feature with CSS instead of JavaScript. #39
    • Enhancement: Add active sidebar ID to the html element classes. #41
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  3. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.4

    • Feature: [ocs_trigger] shortcode to display trigger buttons/elements anywhere you like, click here for documentation. #24
    • Shortcode generator available in the settings page.
    • Integrate a shortcode generator with the WP Editor. #32
    • Enhancement: New “Legacy CSS” mode. Modified the Slidebars library to support older CSS2 animations. Can fix a lot of issues with fixed elements. #26
    • Compatibility: Modified the default Slidebars CSS to support anchor links and common smooth scroll implementations.
    • Compatibility: Some enhancements for compatibility with the WP Admin Bar.
    • UI: Improve widget UI #27
    • Fix: Enhance the codebase to be more aligned with the WP coding standards with CodeClimate.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

201610 releases

  1. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.3.1.1

    • Fix: Settings page checkbox bug when saving

  2. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.3.1

    • Feature: Allow changing this plugin capability to show the settings page
    • Fix: Update fixed element compat for the new Slidebars version (still experimental, Slidebars still doesn’t fully support fixed elements within the site container)
    • Fix: Don’t echo empty sidebar CSS selectors if no styles are set
    • UI: Set .ocs-button to cursor: pointer; by default
    • Update textdomain hook
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  3. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.3

    • Feature: Allow sidebars to overwrite some general settings
    • Feature: Option to set padding to sidebars
    • Feature: Option to choose other content types than only a WP sidebar for an off-canvas sidebar
    • Feature: Option to set your own CSS prefix (some classes are fixes to ocs and can’t be changed, the prefix ocs is also the default prefix for new installations)
    • Feature: Added various actions, filters and JS hooks – Click here for info
    • Feature: OCS API functions to output off canvas sidebars in your theme instead of using this plugin frontend functions – Click here for info
    • Fix: Sidebar ID validation wasn’t correct
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  4. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.2.2

    • Feature: Option to set the animation speed for sidebars
    • Feature: Option to use the FastClick library – Click here for info
    • Fix: Disabling sidebars on global settings page didn’t work

  5. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.2.1

    • Fix: Add touch events for iOS mobile device compatibility
    • Enhancement: Added some actions for front-end (see Other Notes)

  6. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.2.0.1

    • Fix: Global variable bug
    • UI: Improve settings page

  7. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.2

  8. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.1.2

  9. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.1.1

  10. Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) 0.1

Questions about Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)’s releases

What is the latest version of Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)?

0.5.9.1, released on Oct 21, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.4 or later.

How often is Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars) updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 41 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2016.

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