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Spotlight Social Photo Feed · Version history

Spotlight Social Photo Feed changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.1
Oct 21, 2026 (21 days ago)
Releases
75
since 2020
In the last year
4
about one every 92 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.1 or later

Releases each year

  • 202014 releases
  • 202118 releases
  • 202213 releases
  • 202314 releases
  • 20249 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.8.1Latest

    • Added – Added a “Recommended plugins” page to the Instagram Feeds menu, listing other plugins from the Spotlight team. – Added a dismissible banner on the Feeds screen that recommends Vireo Analytics, a free analytics plugin with a report for Spotlight feeds.
    • Changed – The Help page now opens inside the WordPress admin on the free version too, instead of in a new tab. – On the free version, the account menu item is now called “Account” instead of “License”. – Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.
    • Fixed – Upgrade and PRO badges showed on top of the feed editor’s sidebar section headers when scrolling.
    • Removed – Removed the survey banner from the Feeds screen.

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.8.0

    • Added – New feeds now start with a layout choice. Users with a connected account go straight to the customizer; users without one are guided through connecting first. – Feeds can be imported from the new feed layout step.
    • Changed – The Spotlight block is now registered from block.json (Block API v3), so it works in the iframed block editor. – The Follow button is now a single link, so keyboard and screen reader users get one clear control. – Updated the UI build tools and dependencies to fix known security vulnerabi…
    • Fixed – The profile photo was slightly off-centre in the Centered header style. – Spacing issues in the new feed screens on mobile. – The selected preview device button in the feed editor could show its icon blue on blue. – The feed editor preview flashed when switching to tablet or phone. – The pl…
    • Removed – Removed an unused survey endpoint that contained a hardcoded external webhook URL.

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.5

    • Changed – Updated Analytics date handling to use WordPress date/time functions for improved timezone consistency. – Improved null validation before calling version_compare() to prevent PHP 8.x deprecated warnings. – Modernized internal function signatures for better PHP 8.3 compatibility.
    • Fixed – Fixed long-standing PHP 8.x deprecated warning caused by version_compare() being called with a null value. – Fixed multiple PHP 8.3 deprecated warnings and notices across Free and Premium versions.

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.4

    • Added – Added a 4:5 image ratio option to the Grid layout. – Added 3:4 and 4:5 image ratio options to the Highlight and Slider layouts.
    • Fixed – Fixed misaligned arrows in Slider layouts.

20253 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.3

    • Changed – Spotlight now supports Meta’s oEmbed API v22.0. – This ensures continued compatibility after Meta’s removal of certain oEmbed fields and the deprecation of the Facebook Page Post oEmbed endpoint (effective October 1, 2025).

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.2

    • Added – Added a Tall Grid template with a 3:4 ratio and a new Ratio option in Appearance Settings.
    • Changed – Removed local error log and redirected errors to the WordPress debug log.

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.1

    • Changed – Updated PHP deprecations related to filtering. – Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.

20249 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.7.0

    • Added – Implemented Instagram Business Basic API to replace the deprecated Personal API for enhanced functionality and compliance with platform requirements.

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.16

    • Fixed – Release issues.

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.15

    • Added – Notices for changes to Meta API for personal and business accounts.

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.13

    • Changed – Renamed the “All Access” plan to “Agency”. – Updated the pricing page to use the new beta Freemius pricing app.

  5. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.12

    • Changed – Changed upgrade button text.

  6. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.11

    • Fixed – CSRF vulnerability when connecting accounts. – The plugin now allows either the imagick or gd extension to be used for image processing, not just the gd extension.

  7. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.10

    • Fixed – Fixed the heading for the “Performance” settings section.

  8. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.9

    • Changed – Replaced all mentions of the “Performance” plan with “All access”.

  9. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.8

    • Changed – The photo/video URLs for imported posts are now forcefully updated on every fetch.
    • Fixed – A common conflict with other plugins that use a newer version of the psr/simple-cache package.

202314 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.7

    • Added – Links for the Black Friday 2023 offer. – A new filter that disables searching for feed instances.
    • Changed – Optimized the queries that search for feed instances.
    • Fixed – Removed use of deprecated onkeypress DOM event.

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.6

    • Changed – The feed now prioritizes thumbnails that are locally downloaded.

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.4

    • Changed – Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.12.
    • Fixed – The error log contents were overflowing and not staying within the screen. – Some links in the feed did not have the necessary SEO rel attributes. – Removed a deprecated field from some Instagram API requests.

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.3

    • Fixed – IG posts with emojis or certain characters could not be imported.

  5. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.2

    • Changed – Improved logging when importing posts from Instagram. – Improved logging when downloading remote files.
    • Fixed – String interpolation is now compatible with PHP 8 without warnings.

  6. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6.1

    • Changed – Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version
    • Fixed – Fixed a missing import for RuntimeException that triggered an error during a feed update.

  7. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.6

    • Added – Reels playback is now enabled in the popup box, if the API provides the video URL.

  8. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.5.3

    • Changed – Optimized some JavaScript code to be slightly smaller.
    • Fixed – Like and comment counts were not imported for Business accounts after the v1.5.2 update.

  9. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.5.2

    • Changed – The use cases and templates in the feed creation wizard can now be double-clicked for faster wizard completion. – Improved styling in news notifications.
    • Fixed – Personal accounts could not fetch posts after a recent unannounced change to Instagram’s APIs. – News notifications were not being displayed in the admin UI.

  10. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.5.1

  11. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.5

  12. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.4.4

  13. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.4.3

  14. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.4.2

202213 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.4.1

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.4

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.3

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.2

  5. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.1.1

  6. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.1

  7. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.0.1

  8. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 1.0

  9. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.10.3

  10. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.10.2

  11. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.10.1

  12. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.10

  13. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.9

202118 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.8

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.7

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.6

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.5

  5. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.4

  6. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.3

  7. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.2

  8. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9.1

  9. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.9

  10. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.8.2

  11. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.8.1

  12. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.8

  13. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.7

  14. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.6.1

  15. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.6

  16. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.5.4

  17. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.5.3

  18. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.5.2

202014 releases

  1. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.5.1

  2. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.5

  3. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.4.2

  4. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.4.1

  5. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.4

  6. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.3.2

  7. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.3.1

  8. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.3

  9. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.2.4

  10. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.2.3

  11. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.2.2

  12. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.2.1

  13. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.2

  14. Spotlight Social Photo Feed 0.1

Questions about Spotlight Social Photo Feed’s releases

What is the latest version of Spotlight Social Photo Feed?

1.8.1, released on Oct 21, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.1 or later.

How often is Spotlight Social Photo Feed updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 92 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2020.

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