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Simple Staff List · Version history

Simple Staff List changelog and version history

Latest version
2.2.6
Nov 3, 2026 (6 days ago)
Releases
25
since 2013
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20138 releases
  • 20154 releases
  • 20172 releases
  • 20183 releases
  • 20192 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20232 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.6Latest

    • IMPROVED: General hardening and code quality improvements. Updating is recommended.
    • CHANGED: Staff exports now download directly in your browser.
    • CHANGED: On sites where users can’t post unfiltered HTML (such as multisite), the staff list template now allows the same HTML as post content.
    • FIXED: Single staff member pages could show a critical error, or show a “page not found” message inside the email, phone, Facebook or Twitter icons. The icons are now loaded from the plugin’s own files.
    • FIXED: Opening the Templates page with “Write to external CSS file” turned on erased your custom CSS, and saving then emptied the theme’s CSS file.
    • FIXED: Position, Email, Phone and Bio are now shown on the Order page.
    • FIXED: PHP 8.2 “dynamic property” deprecation notice. Props Curtis McHale.
    • FIXED: Plugin images on sites whose address contains “localhost”.
    • CHANGED: “Requires at least” is now WordPress 3.5. The plugin has needed 3.5 since earlier releases; the readme now says so.

20251 release

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.5

    • FIXED: Added security nonces

20232 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.4

    • FIXED: Added additional escaping

  2. Simple Staff List 2.2.3

    • FIXED: Added additional escaping

20221 release

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.2

    • ADDED: sslp_after_staff_member_admin_fields which passes $post->ID so a user can add their own fields to the metabox
    • ADDED: sslp_save_staff_member_details' which passes$post->IDand$_POST` so that users can save their own custom fields

20211 release

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.1

    • ADDED: Use the filter sslp_staff_member_bio_kses_allowed_html to change which HTML tags are allowed in the Staff Member bio field – it currently defaults to the post context. Learn more.
    • FIXED: Added some data sanitization and escaping
    • FIXED: Removed extra spacing on default values
    • CLEANED UP: Removed some old debugging code

20192 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 2.2.0

    • FEATURE: Use the id shortcode parameter to show a single Staff Member block
    • FEATURE: Use the sslp_enable_staff_member_archive filter to disable the /staff-member archive page. This filter defaults to true – pass false to turn off the archive page. You will need to flush the permalinks for this to take effect.
    • FEATURE: Use the sslp_query_args filter to change the WP_Query arguments used to query the Staff Members
    • ADDED: Staff Group data to the CSV export
    • FIXED: Previously, the [simple-staff-list] shortcode would request all staff members from the database, this could lead to poor performance on sites with large numbers of staff members, so now the default is 100. This should not affect most users.

  2. Simple Staff List 2.1.1

    • FIXED: post-thumbnail support for staff-member custom post type.

20183 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 2.1.0

    • FEATURE: Single Staff Member Templates – Learn more in this [blog post](https://brettshumaker.com/simple-staff-list-single-staff-member-templates “Simple Staff List – Single Staff Member Templates)
    • FIXED: Bug with staff member export.
    • CLEANED UP: A bit more code formatting

  2. Simple Staff List 2.0.3

    • FIXED: I got a little carried away with my code clean up and broke some admin pages. Sorry about that. 🙂

  3. Simple Staff List 2.0.2

    • CLEANED UP: A bunch of code formatting

20172 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 2.0.1

    • FIXED: PHP 5.2 incompatibility introduced in v2.0
    • FIXED: A few images in admin didn’t make it into the last commit somehow

  2. Simple Staff List 2.0

    • FEATURE: Export Staff Members to CSV
    • FEATURE: Specify which image size to use in the loop by using the “image_size” attribute in the “[simple-staff-list]” shortcode: [simple-staff-list image_size=thumbnail]
    • Fixed: Rewrite rules are now flushed correctly

20154 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 1.19

    • BUGFIX: External Custom CSS now loading properly.
    • BUGFIX: Multiple shortcodes on page with “groups” attribute now working properly.
    • BUGFIX: PHP 5.2 white screen. One of our files (not being used yet, but will be in a future update) had an incompatibility with PHP 5.2. We’re now checking the PHP version before loading this file and will address it’s PHP 5.2 compatibility in a future release.

  2. Simple Staff List 1.18

    • Things are happening! Hey guys, I’ll be rewriting this plugin with help from some other developers in the WPNashville Community. Want to be involved and give some input on the direction of Simple Staff List? Fill out our survey!
    • Fixed: Javascript incompatibility with Yoast SEO plugin
    • UPDATED: Moved plugin to class structure based on The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

  3. Simple Staff List 1.17

    • Sorry about that! Pushed this version too soon!

  4. Simple Staff List 1.16

    • UPDATED: Added translation support. (Thanks to grappler on GitHub)
    • UPDATED: Added some template tags to make it easier to access staff member data on a single staff member page (single-staff-member.php) – github pull request #2 from patrickhempel
    • UPDATED: Added option to set a custom URL slug and taxonomy name – github pull request #4 from kaymmm
    • BUGFIX: Fixed a ton of PHP Notices – github issue #2 from asacolips
    • BUGFIX: Menu Icon in WordPress 3.8+

20138 releases

  1. Simple Staff List 1.15

    • UPDATED: Added Facebook and Twitter fields for Staff Members
    • UPDATED: Added support for WYSIWYG editor for Staff Bio.
    • UPDATED: Added support for shortcodes within Staff Loop Template and/or Staff Bio field.
    • UPDATED: Removed HTML comments that caused some themes to add an extra
    • <
    • p> tag. * BUGFIX: Added post-thumbnail support for ‘staff-member’ custom post type. Themes that only added post-thumbnail support for ‘posts’ weren’t able to save featured images. * BUGFIX: Fixed a rare bug that caused an error on some hosting setups (“Can’t Resolve Host” error).

  2. Simple Staff List 1.14

    • UPDATED: Now I check to make sure the theme supports post thumbnails and display a warning message on the Add/Edit screen
    • UPDATED: Minor CSS fix for admin screens

  3. Simple Staff List 1.13

    • NOTE: If you like using my plugin and want to make sure I can still devote some time to updating it with new features, why not head over to my website and make a donation? I’d really appreciate it!!
    • FEATURE: Users now have the option to write their custom CSS to an external file (on by default). This allows Multisite users to write their custom styles inline.
    • UPDATED: You can now use either the group name (i.e. “My Cool Group”) OR the group slug (i.e. “my-cool-group”) in the Simple Staff List shortcode.
    • UPDATED: Passing an empty or non-existent group name no longer results in returning all staff members
    • BUGFIX: Fixed bug where the Staff Loop Template and the Staff Page CSS boxes were blank on initial install…for real this time, guys.

  4. Simple Staff List 1.12

    • UPDATED: Staff Loop Template tags now include [staff-name-slug] returns the slug of the staff member to allow specific targeting of staff members.
    • BUGFIX: Fixed bug where the Staff Loop Template and the Staff Page CSS boxes were blank on initial install.

  5. Simple Staff List 1.11

    • BUGFIX: Fixed minor bug which caused groups to not function properly. My bad.

  6. Simple Staff List 1.10

    • FEATURE: You can now sort your Staff Members into Groups! To display different groups just add a Staff Group in Staff Members > Groups then add group='YOUR-GROUP-NAME' to the [simple-staff-list] shortcode.
    • FEATURE: You can now add a class to the staff-member container! To add a class just add wrap_class='YOUR-CLASS-NAME' to the [simple-staff-list] shortcode.
    • FEATURE: The plugin now saves your custom CSS to an external file in your theme’s directory so you can edit it on the “Templates” page OR in your favorite code editor.
    • UPDATED: Updated default Staff Loop Template and default styling to make your Staff Directory look nicer out-of-the-box.
    • BUGFIX: Trashing a Staff Member no longer causes member information to be lost.
    • BUGFIX: Removed the automatic phone number formatting. My apologies to any non-U.S. users.
    • Other minor tweaks/performance enhances.

  7. Simple Staff List 1.02

    • BUGFIX: Corrects a plugin option naming inconsistency which resulted in empty boxes on the Templates page

  8. Simple Staff List 1.01

    • I incorrectly tagged release version 1.0 and, as a result, not all files were included in version 1.0 of Simple Staff List.
    • This version adds those required files back into the package.

Questions about Simple Staff List’s releases

What is the latest version of Simple Staff List?

2.2.6, released on Nov 3, 2026 (6 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.4 or later.

How often is Simple Staff List updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2013.

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