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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails · Version history

Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails changelog and version history

Latest version
7.2.0
Oct 10, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
7
since 2020
In the last year
2
about one every 53 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20203 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.2.0Latest

    • Added direct file access prevention
    • Avoided ambiguous WordPress global naming
    • Completed translation domains and literal strings
    • Added context for translators
    • Used WordPress-native utility functions
    • Enforced strict array comparisons
    • Improved accessibility for screen reader
    • Removed deprecated wp_get_sites usage
    • Raised minimum WordPress version to 4.6
    • Raised minimum PHP version to 5.6
    • Corrected the SQL placeholder usage for attachment lookups
    • Hardened escaping for widget settings and frontend output
    • Replaced direct CSS file operations with the WordPress Filesystem API
    • Replaced the direct attachment database query with the WordPress media API

  2. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.1.1

    • Restored PHP 5.x support

20212 releases

  1. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.1.0

    • Added feature for post order and sorting (feature request: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-posts-by-title/)
    • Added class .rpwwt-post-excerpt-more for the “more” text following the excerpt. (feature request: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/class-for-more-sign/)
    • Dropped PHP 5 support
    • Moved language files to translate.wordpress.org. So, please contribute as a translator to make Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails available in more and more languages.
    • Compatibility with WordPress 5.8

  2. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.0.3

    • new branding
    • Tested successfully with WordPress 5.6.2

20203 releases

  1. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.0.2

    • Corrected comments in uninstall.php
    • Tested successfully with WordPress 5.6

  2. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.0.1

    • Added catalan translation, thanks to Ibidem Group
    • Tested successfully with WordPress 5.5.3

  3. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 7.0.0

    • Added option for omitting all alternative texts of images to improve accessibility
    • Added ARIA attribute for the list item of the current page to improve accessibility
    • Revised output if the post has no title
    • Revised thumbnail display functions
    • Improved description for the default alternative text
    • Updated *.pot file and translations
    • Updated screenshot of the widget form

Questions about Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails’s releases

What is the latest version of Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails?

7.2.0, released on Oct 10, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 53 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2020.

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