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Quick Download Button · Version history

Quick Download Button changelog and version history

Latest version
1.4.0
May 6, 2026 (6 months ago)
Releases
15
since 2022
In the last year
3
about one every 26 days
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20229 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. Quick Download Button 1.4.0Latest

    • New: Admin dashboard — dedicated “Quick Download” menu in wp-admin with an Overview panel, Download Log, Leads list, and Settings page.
    • New: Download analytics — every button click is recorded in a custom database table. View counts per button from the Download Log screen and export to CSV.
    • New: Download count badge — optionally display a cumulative download count inline on any button. Controllable globally via Settings or per-button with the show_count shortcode attribute / block toggle.
    • New: Email gate infrastructure — foundation for collecting visitor emails before a download starts (Pro activation required to enable the gate on individual buttons).
    • New: data-qdb-btn-id attribute — each button now carries a unique identifier used by analytics and the new extensibility hooks.
    • New: qdb-before-download JavaScript event — fired on the button element before the download URL is followed. Cancelable; Pro add-ons use event.preventDefault() and detail.proceed() to intercept and resume the download.
    • New: qdb_gate_html action hook — lets add-on plugins inject gate HTML (email form, passcode input, etc.) inside the button wrapper without editing core files.
    • Improved: Plugin description updated to reflect current feature set.
    • Improved: Added QDBN__VERSION and QDBN__DB_VERSION constants for use by add-on plugins and update routines.

  2. Quick Download Button 1.3.0

    • New: Three additional button styles — Pill, Card, and Ghost — joining the original Large, Mid, Small, and Basic.
    • New: Button Row block (Gutenberg) and [quick_download_button_group] shortcode — arrange multiple buttons horizontally or stacked, with gap and alignment controls and an optional stack-on-mobile mode.
    • New: Popup modal during countdown — display ads, custom HTML, shortcodes, or any embed code in an overlay modal while the timer counts down. Configured via an enclosed shortcode or a textarea in the block editor.
    • New: Popup closable control — choose whether visitors can dismiss the popup early (close button, overlay click, Escape key) or whether it stays until the download fires. Default: closable.
    • New: Manual file size — override auto-detected file size with any text, or set a file size for external URLs where auto-detection is not possible.
    • New: Built-in icon picker for both the download icon and the file size icon — choose from 11 icons (default arrow, cloud, circle, file-dl, inbox, save, bolt, folder, archive, info, chip) or supply a custom SVG.
    • New: Icon position — place the download icon to the left or right of the button label.
    • New: Panel colour — separate background colour for the info panel on Pill, Card, and Ghost styles.
    • Fixed: File type icons (PDF, ZIP, MP3, etc.) not rendering correctly inside Pill, Card, and Ghost buttons due to overflow clipping.
    • Fixed: File size icon and text not properly aligned on the Large, Small, Mid, and Basic styles (missing flex layout on p.down).
    • Improved: Frontend JavaScript fully rewritten — single interval timer drives both the inline spinner countdown and the popup countdown simultaneously, preventing double-trigger on fast clicks.
    • Improved: data-qdb-running guard prevents countdown from stacking if the button is clicked while a timer is already running.

  3. Quick Download Button 1.2.7

    • Fixed: Fatal “ValueError: Path cannot be empty” when using the download block with internally hosted files.
    • Technical: Removed incorrect esc_url() sanitisation that stripped local file paths.

20233 releases

  1. Quick Download Button 1.2.6

    • Optimised: CSS and JavaScript now only load on pages that contain a download button, improving performance site-wide.

  2. Quick Download Button 1.2.5

    • Fixed: 404 error when the Quick Download Button redirect page was deleted. Deactivate and reactivate the plugin to recreate it.

  3. Quick Download Button 1.2.4

    • Fixed: Nonce verification failure when the download link is an external URL.

20229 releases

  1. Quick Download Button 1.2.3

    • New: Access control — restrict downloads by user role and login status.

  2. Quick Download Button 1.2.2

  3. Quick Download Button 1.2.1

  4. Quick Download Button 1.2.0

    • Fixed: Large button style CSS broken after upgrade.

  5. Quick Download Button 1.0.9

    • New: Small, Mid, and Basic button styles.
    • New: Button alignment — left, centre, right.

  6. Quick Download Button 1.0.8

    • Fixed: Wait message not displaying during the countdown timer.

  7. Quick Download Button 1.0.7

  8. Quick Download Button 1.0.6

  9. Quick Download Button 1.0.5

    • New: Multisite support.
    • New: wait and color_bg shortcode attributes.

Questions about Quick Download Button’s releases

What is the latest version of Quick Download Button?

1.4.0, released on May 6, 2026 (6 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Quick Download Button updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 26 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2022.

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