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Simple Image Widget · Version history

Simple Image Widget changelog and version history

Latest version
4.4.2
Jul 20, 2025 (1 year ago)
Releases
23
since 2008
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12

Releases each year

  • 20081 release
  • 20092 releases
  • 20101 release
  • 20112 releases
  • 20133 releases
  • 20146 releases
  • 20154 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20171 release
  • 20251 release

20251 release

  1. Simple Image Widget 4.4.2Latest

    • Changed the widget name to “Image (Simple)” to differentiate it from the core image widget introduced in WordPress 4.8.

20171 release

  1. Simple Image Widget 4.4.1

    • Added missing text domains.

20162 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 4.4.0

    • Enabled selective refresh in the Customizer.
    • Removed PO and MO files in favor of WordPress.org Language Packs.
    • Prevented errors if the main plugin file is accessed directly.

  2. Simple Image Widget 4.3.0

    • Transferred to Cedaro.

20154 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 4.2.2

    • Show media extensions in the post finder modal.
    • Added Dutch translation.

  2. Simple Image Widget 4.2.1

    • Fixed a PHP 5.2 incompatibility that prevented the correct image from showing on the front-end.
    • Fixed a debug notice when searching for attachments in the new find posts modal.

  3. Simple Image Widget 4.2.0

    • Added functionality to search for posts to link images to.
    • Added Japanese translation.
    • Changed the method for generating cache keys. Should provide better support for the_widget() and similar methods.
    • Deprecated the method for flushing a single widget instance from the cache.

  4. Simple Image Widget 4.1.2

    • Added Serbo-Croation translation.

20146 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 4.1.1

    • Added Finnish translation.
    • Prevent a notice about non-existent title when adding a widget in the Customizer in debug mode.

  2. Simple Image Widget 4.1.0

    • Added the ability to hide widget fields.
    • Added a field to insert HTML classes on the text link. Hidden by default.
    • Removed “the_content” filter from widget text to prevent other plugins from appending content.
    • Renamed /scripts to /js and /styles to /css.
    • Improved handling of fields that have been removed in child widgets.

  3. Simple Image Widget 4.0.2

    • Fixed the reference to the widget’s parent class to prevent an error.

  4. Simple Image Widget 4.0.1

    • Allow more HTML tags in the text field.
    • Updated customizer support and prevent cache poisoning.
    • Added French translation.

  5. Simple Image Widget 4.0.0

    • New template system to make it easier to override the output.
    • Restructured to make it more intuitive for developers to extend the widget.
    • Moved legacy support into a separate class that hooks into the widget.
    • Works with the Widget Customizer added in WordPress 3.9.
    • Improved compatibility with plugins like Page Builder by SiteOrigin.

  6. Simple Image Widget 3.0.4

    • Fixed a slash preventing custom translations from loading.
    • Dropped the text domain from custom translation filenames.
    • Loading the text domain earlier so the widget title and description can be filtered.
    • Minor code formatting updates.

20133 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 3.0.2

    • Implemented feature for opening links in a new tab/window.
    • Fixed a bug preventing links in legacy widgets to not work.

  2. Simple Image Widget 3.0.1

    • Removed the main plugin file for the previous version.

  3. Simple Image Widget 3.0

    • Complete rewrite with new media manager support.

20112 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 2.1

  2. Simple Image Widget 2.0

20101 release

  1. Simple Image Widget 1.3

20092 releases

  1. Simple Image Widget 1.2

  2. Simple Image Widget 1.1

20081 release

  1. Simple Image Widget 1.0

Questions about Simple Image Widget’s releases

What is the latest version of Simple Image Widget?

4.4.2, released on Jul 20, 2025 (1 year ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12.

How often is Simple Image Widget updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 1 year ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2008.

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