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Taxonomy Dropdown Widget · Version history

Taxonomy Dropdown Widget changelog and version history

Latest version
2.3.3
Jan 19, 2026 (9 months ago)
Releases
19
since 2009
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20092 releases
  • 20104 releases
  • 20116 releases
  • 20131 release
  • 20141 release
  • 20151 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20222 releases
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.3.3Latest

    • Correct hook used to load plugin textdomain.

20222 releases

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.3.2

    • Ready plugin for translation.

  2. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.3.1

    • PHP 7.3 compatibility

20181 release

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.3

    • Update for WordPress 4.3 by removing PHP4-style widget constructor usage (https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/02/deprecating-php4-style-constructors-in-wordpress-4-3/).

20151 release

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.2

    • Update for WordPress 4.2 to handle term splitting in the plugin’s include/exclude functionality. Details at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/02/16/taxonomy-term-splitting-in-4-2-a-developer-guide/.

20141 release

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.1

    • Introduce filters on dropdown and its components for greater customizability.
    • Implement plugin as a singleton for proper reusability.
    • Improve adherence to WordPress coding standards.
    • Improve translatability of plugin.
    • Generally clean up code for better readability and clarity.
    • Eliminates all uses of extract() for clarity’s sake.

20131 release

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0.3

    • Correct problem in WordPress 3.3 and higher that resulted in an empty taxonomy dropdown.
    • Remove all uses of PHP short tags.

20116 releases

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0.2

    • Allow empty title in widget options. If empty, the taxonomy_dropdown_widget_title filter isn’t run.

  2. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0.1

    • Fix fatal error in older WordPress versions resulting from PHP4 and PHP5 constructors existing in widget class.

  3. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0.0.2

    • Fix bug in post count threshold that resulted in no terms being listed.

  4. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0.0.1

    • Fix bug that appended cutoff indicators when unnecessary.

  5. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2.0

    • Completely rewritten plugin to use WordPress’ newer Widgets API.
    • Drop support for WordPress 2.7 and earlier.
    • Add support for all public, non-hierarchical custom taxonomies, in addition to Post Tags.
    • Introduce new, more flexible function for manually generating dropdown menus.
    • Introduce options requested by the community, such as control over the default dropdown item.
    • Fixed persistent bugs in the include/exclude functionality.
    • Widget admin is translation-ready.

  6. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.7

    • Replaced TDW_direct() and makeTagDropdown() with generateTagDropdown().
    • Recoded entire plugin to simplify and clean up overall functionality.
    • Switched exclude functionality to use tag ids rather than tag slugs.
    • Added numerous additional options to the widget panel based on user response, as detailed below.
    • Added the ability to specify the indicator shown when a tag name is trimmed.
    • Added the ability to limit the number of tags shown.
    • Added the ability to specify the minimum number of posts a given tag must be associated with before it will show in the dropdown.
    • Added options for specifying the order tags are displayed in.
    • Added the ability to specify a list of tags to include in the dropdown, expanding on the existing ability to exclude certain tags.
    • Added the option to display tags which aren’t associated with any posts.
    • Added the TagDropdown_get_tags filter to provide advanced users the ability to modify the arguments passed to WordPress’ get_tags function. Using this filter, the trimming, trimming indicator, and count display settings are still obeyed.

20104 releases

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.6

    • Add TDW_direct() function.
    • Add count and exclusion options to new direct-implementation function (TDW_direct()).
    • Corrects two XHTML validation errors.

  2. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.5.2

    • Unloads tag exclusion list upon deactivation.

  3. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.5.1

    • Moved plugin pages to ethitter.com.

  4. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.5

    • Added option to display number of posts within each tag.

20092 releases

  1. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.4

    • Added option to exclude tags based on comma-separated list of slugs.

  2. Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 1.3

    • Rewrote certain widget elements for compatibility back to version 2.3.

Questions about Taxonomy Dropdown Widget’s releases

What is the latest version of Taxonomy Dropdown Widget?

2.3.3, released on Jan 19, 2026 (9 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Taxonomy Dropdown Widget updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2009.

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