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Search & Filter · Version history

Search & Filter changelog and version history

Latest version
1.2.18
Aug 22, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
24
since 2013
In the last year
2
about one every 251 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20135 releases
  • 20146 releases
  • 20153 releases
  • 20171 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20202 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20222 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20251 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.18Latest

    • Security enhancement – prevent unauthorised redirects when submitting the form.

20251 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.17

    • Fixed – PHP notice about frmqreserved not being initialised.
    • Bump – version number + tested upto.

20241 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.16

    • Fixed – a potential security issue with escaping
    • Fixed – add support for block editor themes which don’t use get_header()
    • Fixed – prefixed classes to avoid conflicts with other plugins + themes

20222 releases

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.15

    • Fixed – a PHP 8 warning when using the taxonomy walker class – thanks @jules-colle + @superthin

  2. Search & Filter 1.2.14

    • Admin notice added – Version 3 is coming soon – beta testers wanted + tons of improvements and changes coming – make sure you know what’s in store.
    • Update docs URLs
    • Fix – an issue with an <option> element self closing in the multiselect field (thanks @matzeatweb)

20211 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.13

    • Fix – a PHP warning when using Beaver Builder

20202 releases

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.12

    • Fixed – some PHP warnings when using radio, checkbox and multiselects
    • Fixed – a typo (thanks sunjunkie)
    • Tested with WP 5.3

  2. Search & Filter 1.2.11

    • Fixed – a few typos in the admin screen
    • Tested with WP 5.0 RC2

20181 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.10

    • Fixed – an issue with our syntax highlighting script modifying our shortcodes

20171 release

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.9

    • Fixed – bugs with WP 4.4 compatibility
    • Fixed – an issue with operators being case sensitive – they are no longer case sensitive

20153 releases

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.8

    • Fixed – an issue with rewrites – thanks @iohannis

  2. Search & Filter 1.2.7

    • Fixed – fix for new taxonomy rewrites and problems with multiple selection when using checkboxes
    • Fixed – added previously hidden multiselect field type

  3. Search & Filter 1.2.6

    • Fixed – compatibility issues with WP 4.2.x

20146 releases

  1. Search & Filter 1.2.5

    • Fixed a PHP error when setting defaults for taxonomies – many users did not see this but resulted in unexpected behaviour
    • Fixed an error with post date sometimes being undefined for blank searches
    • Added argument empty_search_url – when a users submits the search form without any search preferences selected they will be redirected to this URL
    • Updated argument add_search_param – setting to 1 will force add a “?s=” to all urls generate by the plugin – this may help with the loading of search templates in some themes

  2. Search & Filter 1.2.4

    • Fixed a bug created in 1.2.3 when doing an empty search

  3. Search & Filter 1.2.3

    • Added arguement all_items_labels which allows for support for custom all_items labels in taxonomies, categories, post tags and post types when using select and radio types – the default text displaying “All Categories” for example can now be defined using all_items_labels
    • Added show_count to arguments – this shows how many posts are in a particular term, in brackets after the term name – works only for categories, tags and taxonomies
    • Fixed a bug when using when using “all post types” and it displaying no results
    • Reverted behaviour from 1.2.2 – no longer force load search template when search is blank – let WP handle it again
    • Added argument add_search_param – setting it to 1 will force a “?s=” or “&s=” to be added to the url even when the search is blank – in some circumstances this will force load the search template, instead of other WP templates, such as taxonomy or category templates

  4. Search & Filter 1.2.2

    • Added support for multi selects – use multiselect as the type for your field
    • Added support for AND & OR operators when using checkboxes or multiselects – use the operators argument with allowed values of and & or
    • Force load search template when search is blank, don’t include when search field is not included in shortcode
    • Fixed an issue with navigation disappearing when using post_types

  5. Search & Filter 1.2.1

    • Version Bump – bad commit

  6. Search & Filter 1.2.0

    • WARNING – this update includes some major changes to shortcode construction, do not upgrade until you have read how this will affect your setup – updating should be easy.
    • Renamed the taxonomies argument to fields – taxonomies is now no longer appropriate as this list contains field types other than taxonomies – this list now contains taxonomies, post_type, post_date and search – taxonomies as an argument is still supported however will be deprecated
    • Search box can now be positioned anywhere, simply include search in the fields list in the position desired. Upgrading from previous versions will cause you to lose your search box, simply include search in the fields list to show it again
    • Drop support for search argument as no longer relevant – control display of search input by adding it to the fields list
    • Labels have been completely rewritten – label has been renamed to headings to avoid confusion with internal taxonomy labels – the headings argument now allows for any text to be added and displayed as a heading for each field – this allows for much more flexibility and no longer uses internal taxon…
    • Added support for hierarchical taxonomies for all input types – checkbox, radio & select
    • Added support for ordering of taxonomies – use order_by argument – allowed values are id, name, slug, count, term_group
    • Added support for ordering direction of taxonomies – use order_dir argument – allowed values are ‘asc’ or ‘desc’
    • Added support to show or hide empty taxonomies – use hide_empty argument
    • Added support for search_placeholder
    • Updated post_date functionality to work with older versions of WP – can be displayed either as date or daterange – the post_date field uses the HTML 5 input type of date – browsers that do not support it will simply show a text box – a tutorial of integrating jquery for graceful degredation is in t…
    • Renamed submitlabel to submit_label – submitlabel still works for now.
    • Renamed type to types – type still works for now.
    • Updated display of checkboxes and radio buttons, inputs are now wrapped in an unordered list which may affect your styling
    • Various bug fixes
    • Thanks to bradaric for help with hierarchical dropdown lists and date input types – https://github.com/bradaric

20135 releases

  1. Search & Filter 1.1.2

    • Added support for all public and custom post types (the attachment post type is excluded) – all post types can be user searchable or predfined and hidden from the user. This allows for users to add multiple search widgets to their site which work on specific post types independantly from eachother.
    • Added offical updated documentation, created and moved to Search & Filter Docs

  2. Search & Filter 1.1.1

    • Fixed: when submitting an empty search/filter, “?s=” now gets appended to the url (an empty search) to force load a results page, previously this was redirecting to the homepage which does not work for many use cases

  3. Search & Filter 1.1.0

    • Added support for checkboxes and radio buttons, with the option to control this for each individual taxonomy.
    • Added support to show or hide headings for each individual taxonomy.
    • Added support to pass a class name through to Search & Filter widgets, this allows styling of different instances of Search & Filter
    • Fixed problems with escaping output in search box
    • Notice: This update will automatically add headings to taxonomy dropdowns, refer to usage and examples on how to disable them.

  4. Search & Filter 1.0.3

    • Added some documention & screenshots to plugin page

  5. Search & Filter 1.0.2

    • Version bump for WordPress plugins site

Questions about Search & Filter’s releases

What is the latest version of Search & Filter?

1.2.18, released on Aug 22, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Search & Filter updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 251 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2013.

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