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Search Analytics for WP · Version history

Search Analytics for WP changelog and version history

Latest version
1.6.1
Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago)
Releases
38
since 2018
In the last year
4
about one every 78 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 201810 releases
  • 20193 releases
  • 20204 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20226 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20246 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.6.1Latest

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.6.0

    • Structure:
    • Search data is now only removed when the plugin is deleted and the setting is checked, never on deactivation. The setting is now called “Delete all search data and settings when the plugin is deleted”
    • The minimum WordPress version is now 4.7 (1.5.0 already needed it)
    • Features:
    • The country lookup can use ip2c.org (HTTPS, IPv4 only) instead of ip-api.com. Choose it under “Country lookup service”; ip-api.com stays the default
    • The new mwtsa_process_search_term() function records searches from your own code, such as an AJAX live search, with the same checks as a normal search
    • Bugfixes:
    • The statistics charts were not loading since 1.5.0
    • The charts and the “By date” view grouped searches by day of the month, merging e.g. 26 August with 26 September. Comparison periods overlapped by a day and the charts showed an extra day
    • On multisite, deactivating the plugin on one site with “Remove plugin tables on deactivate” checked removed the search data of every site in the network. New sites now get their tables reliably, and deleting a site removes its search data
    • A trailing comma in “Exclude search in case it contains certain substring” excluded every search. Matching now also works for non-English text
    • “Last 24 hours”, “Last week” and “Last month” now cover exactly that period instead of starting at midnight
    • Loading the second page of search results or the search feed no longer counts as a new search
    • Terms with leading or repeated spaces, or longer than 100 characters, got a new row on every search
    • The minimum characters setting now counts characters instead of bytes
    • The CSV export headers were wrong in the “No Group” view
    • Saving the settings reset the chart defaults
    • Deleting terms, and the old Dashboard and Settings menu entries, left a half-rendered page instead of redirecting
    • The roles allowed on the settings page could not save it, and the roles allowed on the statistics page could not export
    • The erase confirmation was skipped in translations containing an apostrophe
    • Security:
    • CSV exports no longer let search terms run as spreadsheet formulas
    • The tracking cookie is validated (a malformed cookie made every request fail) and is now HttpOnly and SameSite
    • Every action now checks the user’s role, including the chart requests and erasing the history
    • Optimizations:
    • Countries are shown with flag emoji instead of 249 bundled flag images (about 1 MB). Browsers that can’t draw flag emoji, such as Chrome and Edge on Windows, load a small flag font bundled with the plugin
    • Added database indexes to the search history and search terms tables. Database upgrades now run from the admin, never during a visitor’s search
    • The country lookup only runs for recorded searches, is cached per IP for a day and times out after 2 seconds
    • The tracking cookie is no longer re-sent on every page, which kept pages out of full-page caches
    • Searches through the REST API are counted without loading every matching post

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.5.0

    • Structure: Changed the main page from wp-admin/index.php?page=search-analytics%2Fadmin%2Fincludes%2Fclass.stats.php to wp-admin/admin.php?page=mwtsa-search-analytics. A proper redirect was added to the old route
    • Structure: Changed the settings page from wp-admin/options-general.php?page=search-analytics to wp-admin/admin.php?page=mwtsa-search-analytics-settings. A proper redirect was added to the old route
    • Structure: Added a new way to access the plugin main page as a section on the sidebar.
    • Bugfix: Fix a possible crash in case ip-api.com did not return a valid response
    • Bugfix: Fix potential IP spoofing when running a search with save country on
    • Feature: Added mwtsa_run_terms_history_data_query_args filter for changing the args before history data gets queried
    • Feature: Added a link to the statistics page on the dashboard widget
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability
    • Optimization: Performance improvements
    • Optimization: Added the select2 and jQuery UI Smoothness theme as assets in the plugin
    • Optimization: Deprecated the global $mwtsa. It will be removed in a later version. Use the MWTSAI() to get the instance
    • Deprecations: Deprecated the helper functions with mwt_ prefix and renamed them to the proper prefix mwtsa_ to prevent possible collisions
    • Deprecations: Deprecated the mwtsa_run_terms_history_data_query filter. It could be used by bad actors to modify the query and pass a not sanitized query through

  4. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.16

    • Bugfix: Fix bug related to exclude keywords setting, reported here. Thank you @luislu for the report!

20251 release

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.15

    • Bugfix: Fix country not being saved, reported here. Thank you @mikeeiler for the report!

20246 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.14

    • Bugfix: Fix bulk deletion not working.

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.13

    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization.

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.12

    • Others: Rename plugin to “Search Analytics for WP”

  4. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.11

    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability reported by vgo0

  5. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.10

    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed Broken Access Control vulnerability reported by Abdi Pranata. Thank you for the responsible disclosure!
    • Optimization: Compatibility with WP 6.6.x

  6. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.9

    • Bugfix: Fixed warnings showing on specific combination of filters and grouping. Reported here. Thank you @sadesades for the detailed report!

20233 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.8

    • Optimization: (ENCORE) Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed this vulnerability
    • Optimization: adjust some translations

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.6

    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed this vulnerability
    • Bugfix: Charts not working after changing interval or chart type

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.5

    • Bugfix: Fix PHP Compatibility issue: PHP 5.6 – 7.2

20226 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.4

    • Bugfix: Date filters not working if the browser is set in a language different from English
    • Feature: Add setting: “Show results dates as UTC”, default: true
    • Feature: Make dates in the results list show as UTC by default.
    • Feature: Add 6 more filters and 2 actions for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: Search Analytics for WP: Filters Reference
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
    • Optimization: Updates to the settings page
    • Deprecations: Deprecated the mwt_wp_date_format_to_js_datepicker_format() helper function

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.3

    • Bugfix: Make sure that shortcode mwtsa_display_latest_searches displays unique terms
    • Feature: Add more parameters to some filters. An overview post will be published here: Search Analytics for WP: Filters Reference

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.2

    • Bugfix: fix default filters in the results view

  4. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.1

    • Feature: Add shortcode mwtsa_display_latest_searches for displaying the latest searches on the frontend of the website
    • Feature: Add 3 more filters for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: Search Analytics for WP: Filters Reference
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
    • Others: Add link to the complete changelog

  5. Search Analytics for WP 1.4.0

    • Feature: Add REST API search support
    • Feature: Add 9 filters for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: Search Analytics for WP: Filters Reference
    • Optimization: Add the search term to the mwtsa_extra_exclude_conditions filter
    • Optimization: Check for minimum PHP and WP versions when activating the plugin
    • Optimization: Compatibility with WP versions up to 6.0.1
    • Optimization: Compatibility with PHP v8.1
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
    • Bugfix: Fix styling on WP 4.4.0 – 4.9.20
    • Bugfix: Fix broken settings page URL from the results page
    • Others: Rename the plugin to “WP Search Analytics”

  6. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.6

    • Bugfix: Users can not see the statistics page in some cases. Bug report
    • Bugfix: Database error on term delete success page
    • Optimization: Compatibility with WP versions up to 5.8
    • Optimization: Compatibility with PHP versions between 5.6 – 8.0
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
    • Optimization: Remove filters and groups on the term delete success page
    • Others: Add more “Useful Links”
    • Others: Add quick rate tool

20211 release

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.5

    • Bugfix: Fix dates filter not allowing you to select the current day in certain timezones
    • Bugfix: Deleting multiple entries with the bulk action would trigger 2 notices
    • Feature: Add support for WpForo
    • Feature: Add mwtsa_export_filename filter to allow control over the filename generated when exporting data
    • Feature: Add shortcode mwtsa_display_search_stats for displaying search statistics on the frontend of the website
    • Optimization: Prepare the plugin for community translation
    • Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization

20204 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.4

    • Bugfix: Fix fatal error for missing wp_timezone() in WP < 5.3.0

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.3

    • Bugfix: Times displayed in UTC time instead of the website’s timezone
    • Feature: allow filtering searches by user
    • Experimental Feature: prevent terms from being saved if they contain certain substrings
    • Experimental Feature: allow the plugin to capture search strings from custom search parameters
    • Optimization: hook load_plugin_textdomain on the init action instead of the plugins_loaded one
    • Optimization: prefix helper functions create_date_range and get_current_user_ip with mwt_ to avoid eventual naming conflicts

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.2

    • Bugfix: “Only display the statistics and settings page for these user roles” not working correctly
    • Bugfix: Fix missing script error if charts disabled
    • Bugfix: Add prefix to the option setting group to prevent conflicts
    • Bugfix: Database error if search-term URL param is empty
    • Feature: Split the “Only display the statistics and settings page for these user roles” in 2 different settings
    • Optimization: compatibility with WP versions up to 5.4
    • Optimization: Add prefix to the option setting group to prevent conflicts
    • Optimization: Review and patch the plugin from a security perspective
    • Optimization: Made sure administrator display rights can not be taken away by making the field disabled

  4. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.1

    • Bugfix: database not being updated correctly in case of plugin update. It only worked for manual plugin activation
    • Bugfix: search country locked to Canada.

20193 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.3.0

    • Feature: add save_search_term() method to allow external search saving
    • Feature: add mwtsa_extra_exclude_conditions filter to allow more control over the conditions in which a search is processed
    • Feature: add mwtsa_exclude_term filter to allow more control over the conditions in which terms are saved
    • Feature: save searches by user so the user can see his search history
    • Feature: add country geolocation for the searches
    • Feature: add more options for the chart
    • Feature: add period comparison in the chart
    • Optimization: compatibility with version 5.2.2
    • Optimization: Add multisite support
    • Optimization: Build separate methods for displaying charts to be able to easily integrate it in other views
    • Optimization: Make chart include “today”
    • Optimization: general code optimizations
    • Optimization: general code optimizations

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.2.3

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.2.2

201810 releases

  1. Search Analytics for WP 1.2.1

  2. Search Analytics for WP 1.2.0

  3. Search Analytics for WP 1.1.3

  4. Search Analytics for WP 1.1.1

  5. Search Analytics for WP 1.1

  6. Search Analytics for WP 1.0.4

  7. Search Analytics for WP 1.0.3

  8. Search Analytics for WP 1.0.2

  9. Search Analytics for WP 1.0.1

  10. Search Analytics for WP 1.0

Questions about Search Analytics for WP’s releases

What is the latest version of Search Analytics for WP?

1.6.1, released on Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Search Analytics for WP updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 78 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2018.

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