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Related Posts Thumbnails · Version history

Related Posts Thumbnails changelog and version history

Latest version
6.0.0
Oct 19, 2026 (21 days ago)
Releases
57
since 2010
In the last year
6
about one every 57 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 201012 releases
  • 20113 releases
  • 20163 releases
  • 20173 releases
  • 20184 releases
  • 20197 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20212 releases
  • 20225 releases
  • 20235 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 6.0.0Latest

    • Security Fix: Sanitized block attributes before rendering to prevent script injection via the title field.
    • Security Fix: Added a capability check to the cache cleanup so non-admins can’t trigger it.
    • New Feature: Introduced a modern React-powered settings dashboard for a faster, more intuitive setup experience.
    • New Feature: Added related post ID caching with a one-click “Purge Cache” option in the admin bar for instant refresh.
    • Enhancement: Reorganized settings with a one-time migration from the old format, started after admin confirmation.
    • Enhancement: Added a new internal REST API to power the settings dashboard, protected by capability and nonce checks.
    • Enhancement: Refactored the related posts query and rendering engine into dedicated classes for better maintainability and performance.
    • Enhancement: Added 9:16 as a new Image Size option in the Styles dropdown.
    • Enhancement: Top Text is now plain text only; choose its heading style (H1-H6) from the new Title Tag dropdown.
    • Enhancement: Taxonomy and category pickers now show the slug next to the label, making similarly named taxonomies easy to tell apart.
    • Improvement: Hardened output escaping across AMP and dynamic styles for stronger XSS protection.
    • Improvement: Assets now automatically load unminified versions when SCRIPT_DEBUG is enabled, for easier debugging.
    • Bugfix: Resolved multiple UI issues in the settings dashboard – mobile layout, tabs, sidebar icon, and color bar rendering.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.5
    • Compatibility: Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 5.0.1

    • Bugfix: Fixed enqueued asset versioning to prevent stale cached CSS/JS after updates.

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 5.0.0

    • New Feature: Introduced related posts by author – Now you can display posts written by the same author (great for multi-author blogs).
    • New Feature: Use images from anywhere – Upload images from external sources or CDN instead of just from your WordPress library.
    • New Feature: Introduce Cached, faster website – The plugin now caches results automatically, making your site load 3 times faster.
    • Improvement: Smarter image loading – CSS and JavaScript now load only when needed, further speeding up your pages.
    • Improvement: Better security – Added protections when using external images to keep your site safe.
    • Improvement: Live image preview – See how your images look while setting them up in the plugin settings.
    • Improvement: Helpful error messages – Get clear, easy-to-understand messages if something isn’t quite right.
    • Improvement: Quick cache refresh – New button in the admin bar to instantly refresh cached content when needed.
    • Improvement: Better multilingual support – Fixed issues with translated content and language handling.
    • Improvement: Updated translations – Full support for German, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Spanish, Dutch, and Arabic.
    • Bugfix: Better styling consistency – Related posts now display consistently across different layouts.
    • Compatibility: Works with WordPress 7.0 and newer.

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.3.3

    • Security Fix: Added nonce verification and capability checks to prevent CSRF attacks.

  5. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.3.2

    • Security Fix: Fixed CSRF vulnerability in settings form by verifying nonce first.
    • Enhancement: Updated the translation template (POT file).
    • Enhancement: Updated translations for German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, and Turkish.
    • Enhancement: Added translations for Arabic, Spanish, and Dutch.

  6. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.3.1

    • Bugfix: The HTML title tag now correctly defaults to its intended value.

20253 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.3.0

    • Bugfix: Fixed PHP warnings related to taxonomy handling.
    • Bugfix: Resolved date format setting issue in dashboard settings.
    • Enhancement: Added new setting to control spacing between title and thumbnail.
    • Enhancement: Added new setting to customize HTML tag for titles (default: h2).
    • Enhancement: Improved performance with code refactoring and lazy loading implementation.
    • Compatibility: Compatible with WordPress 6.8

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.2.1

    • Bugfix: Set default value for new introduced settings.
    • Bugfix: Fatal Error resolved from v4.2.0
    • Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.2.0

    • Bugfix: PHP Warning for translation hook.
    • Enhancement: Introducing new feature to show 1st image in the article as thumbnail if featured image is not set.
    • Enhancement: Introducing new settings to set the width/height of the thumbnail.
    • Enhancement: Introducing new settings to set the column of the thumbnails.
    • Enhancement: Related Posts is now AMP compatible.
    • Compatibility: Compatible with WordPress 6.7

20243 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.1.0

    • Security Fix: Fixed Opt-out and Opt-in consent.
    • Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.0.1

    • Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.
    • Compatibility: Compatible with WordPress 6.6

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 4.0.0

    • Enhancement: Implemented a new feature on the dashboard settings page allowing users to “Copy code to clipboard”.
    • Enhancement: Code refactoring.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.5

20235 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 3.0.2

    • Enhancement: Update the attribute aria-lable value for accessibility.

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 3.0.1

    • BugFix: Heading’s font size in list view.
    • BugFix: PHP deprecated warnings.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.4
    • Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.2

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 3.0.0

    • Enhancement: Introducing new dashboard layout for related post settings.
    • Enhancement: Code refactoring.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.4
    • Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.2

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.2.0

    • New Feature: Introducing new feature to display category on the related post.
    • BugFix: Removed depreciated code.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.3

  5. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.1.0

    • BugFix: ACF field with image object, URL or ID field.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.1

20225 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.0.3

    • BugFix: Custom field compatible with images object or URL field.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.0
    • Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.1

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.0.2

    • BugFix: PHP Warning on Gutenberg block.

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.0.1

    • BugFix: The image wasn’t displaying with {custom field name} setting.
    • Enhancement: Code refactoring.

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 2.0.0

    • New Feature: Introducing date feature with 7 type of date format.
    • Enhancement: Added a filter rpt_custom_relationship to get posts from multiple custom post types with same term slug.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.9.2

  5. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.9.2

    • Bugfix: Border style issue.
    • Enhancement: Added a filter relpost_anchor_attr to extend the HTML attributes within the related posts thumbnails anchor tag.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.9

20212 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.9.1

    • Bugfix: Mobile view layout.
    • New Feature : Introducing Lazy Loading filter. Use rpt-lazy-loading filter to enable the lazy loading for thumbnails. By default it’s false.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.0

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.9.0

    • New Feature : Filter to add custom sizes of thumbnails to choose from.
    • New Feature : added ‘rpt_exclude_post’ filter to exclude posts from showing as Related Posts.
    • Enhancement : Shortcode attribute to exclude posts from showing as Related Posts.
    • Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.7

20201 release

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.8.3

    • New Feature : Filter for related posts background image.
    • New Feature : Add option to disable related posts on mobile.

20197 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.8.2

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.8.1

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.8.0

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.7.2

  5. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.7.1

  6. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.7.0

  7. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.6

20184 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.5

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.4

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.3

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.2

20173 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.1

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.6.0

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.5.2

20163 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.5.1

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.5.0

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.4.0

20113 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.3.1

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.3

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.9

201012 releases

  1. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.8

  2. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.7

  3. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.6

  4. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.5

  5. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.4

  6. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.3

  7. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.2

  8. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2.1

  9. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.2

  10. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.1.1

  11. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.1

  12. Related Posts Thumbnails 1.0

Questions about Related Posts Thumbnails’s releases

What is the latest version of Related Posts Thumbnails?

6.0.0, released on Oct 19, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Related Posts Thumbnails updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 57 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2010.

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