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Simple Social Icons · Version history

Simple Social Icons changelog and version history

Latest version
4.1.0
Sep 17, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
37
since 2012
In the last year
3
about one every 138 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20124 releases
  • 20137 releases
  • 20142 releases
  • 20157 releases
  • 20163 releases
  • 20181 release
  • 20191 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20235 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 4.1.0Latest

    • Added Apple Music, Discord, Signal, and Twitch icons to the widget
    • Added Apple Music, Discord, and Twitch as block variations (Signal was already available as a block variation)

  2. Simple Social Icons 4.0.0

    • Added block variations support for WordPress 6.9+
    • Extends core Social Icons block with 31 additional icons: AntennaPod, Apple Podcasts, Bloglovin, Diaspora, Fedora, Google Photos, Google Scholar, IMDB, iVoox, Ko-fi, Letterboxd, Matrix, Mendeley, Notion, Overcast, PayPal, Pexels, Phone, Pixelfed, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, ProtonMail, Signal, St…
    • Block variations only add icons not already in WordPress core, so you get both core icons and these additional options
    • Block variations automatically appear in the block editor when adding Social Icons blocks
    • Widget functionality remains completely unchanged and works on WordPress 4.0+
    • Block features are automatically enabled on WordPress 6.9+ and gracefully disabled on older versions

20251 release

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.2.5

    • Added Diaspora icon

20242 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.2.4

    • Improve Bluesky icon alignment

  2. Simple Social Icons 3.2.3

    • Added Bluesky icon

20235 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.2.2

    • Added Etsy, Substack and Telegram icons

  2. Simple Social Icons 3.2.1

    • Fixed issue with new icons

  3. Simple Social Icons 3.2

    • Added Threads and Mastodon icons
    • Updated X / Twitter icon

  4. Simple Social Icons 3.1.2

    • Changed ownership from StudioPress to OsomPress. You can read more details about it in https://osompress.com/4-new-plugins-join-osompress-family/.

  5. Simple Social Icons 3.1.1

    • Added Amazon, Goodreads, Meetup, Reddit, TikTok, Tripadvisor, and WhatsApp icons
    • Updated GitHub icon
    • Removed Google+ and StumbleUpon icons

20221 release

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.1.0

    • Add escaping to output
    • Remove the svgxuse.js script

20201 release

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.0.2

    • Fixed issue where icons can fail if there is a space anywhere in its URL.

20191 release

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.0.1

    • Remove Grunt
    • Fix AMP compatibility

20181 release

  1. Simple Social Icons 3.0.0

    • Obfuscate email address from spambots
    • Prevent email links to open in new window if option selected
    • Fix saving email by removing http:// from it
    • Allow icons to accept transparent color on border and background
    • Fix phone by removing http:// from it
    • Updated Medium logo
    • Added a proper uninstall hook
    • Added a filter to disable the CSS
    • Added filter to update the HTML markup

20163 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 2.0.1

    • Fixed typo in Snapchat icon markup
    • Made CSS selectors more specific
    • Added classes to each icon
    • Added plugin version to enqueued CSS
    • Updated Google + icon

  2. Simple Social Icons 2.0.0

    • Added Behance, Medium, Periscope, Phone, Snapchat, and Xing icons
    • Switched to svg, rather than icon font

  3. Simple Social Icons 1.0.10

    • Update textdomain, generate POT

20157 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 1.0.14

    • Accessibility improvements: change icon color on focus as well as on hover, add text description for assistive technologies

  2. Simple Social Icons 1.0.13

    • Add textdomain loader

  3. Simple Social Icons 1.0.12

    • Prevent ModSecurity blocking fonts from loading

  4. Simple Social Icons 1.0.11

    • Update enqueue version for stylesheet, for cache busting

  5. Simple Social Icons 1.0.9

    • PHP7 compatibility

  6. Simple Social Icons 0.9.1

    • Fixed some styling issues

  7. Simple Social Icons 1.0.8

    • Added border options

20142 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 1.0.7

    • Added Bloglovin icon

  2. Simple Social Icons 1.0.6

20137 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 1.0.5

  2. Simple Social Icons 1.0.4

  3. Simple Social Icons 1.0.3

  4. Simple Social Icons 1.0.2

  5. Simple Social Icons 1.0.1

  6. Simple Social Icons 1.0.0

  7. Simple Social Icons 0.9.5

20124 releases

  1. Simple Social Icons 0.9.4

  2. Simple Social Icons 0.9.3

  3. Simple Social Icons 0.9.2

  4. Simple Social Icons 0.9.0

Questions about Simple Social Icons’s releases

What is the latest version of Simple Social Icons?

4.1.0, released on Sep 17, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Simple Social Icons updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 138 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2012.

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