Video Gallery Block · Version history
Video Gallery Block changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 1.7.0
- Oct 31, 2026 (9 days ago)
- Releases
- 22
- since 2022
- In the last year
- 12
- about one every 21 days
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 7.4 or later
Releases each year
- 20223 releases
- 20234 releases
- 20241 release
- 20252 releases
- 202612 releases
202612 releases
Video Gallery Block 1.7.0Latest
- Security: Hardened video links and captions in the Video Gallery block. A video title or caption can no longer run script when the lightbox opens, whether the gallery video is opened from the page or from the editor. Thanks to Patchstack for the report.
- New: Show a YouTube channel or playlist, or a Vimeo profile, channel, group or showcase, as a gallery. New uploads appear by themselves. Vimeo needs no key. YouTube needs a free YouTube Data API key once, with step-by-step setup in the sidebar.
- New: Choose how often the gallery checks for new videos (every hour, 6 hours, 12 hours or once a day), or click “Check now”. If YouTube or Vimeo can’t be reached, the last videos stay on the page.
- New: Paste a single video’s link and the gallery offers that creator’s whole channel.
- New: The YouTube Shorts option (all videos, hide Shorts, only Shorts) also works for channel feeds.
- New: Play in place. A video can play inside its own tile instead of the lightbox (YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and video files), one at a time.
- New: Feed alerts. When a feed stops updating, for example because of a wrong or expired API key, a used-up daily quota or a deleted playlist, administrators see a notice saying what is wrong and where to fix it. It can be hidden for a day, sent by email if you turn that on, and goes away by itself…
- New: Show the channel name under each title for YouTube and Vimeo feeds.
- New: “Add from Media Library”: pick or upload many videos at once.
- New: Drag video files from your computer, or YouTube and Vimeo links from another tab, onto the gallery to add them.
- New: “Copy these videos to My videos” turns a feed’s videos into your own list, to reorder and edit.
- New: Drag videos on the canvas to reorder them, or use the Move left / Move right buttons.
- Improvement: Clearer settings. Panels follow the order you work in (Video source, Videos, Layout, Display, Playback, Privacy & SEO), feed setup is a set of short steps, and short dropdowns are now buttons.
- Improvement: YouTube thumbnails use the best size that exists for each video, and the live page now shows the same thumbnail as the editor instead of a cropped, blurrier one.
- Improvement: Video SEO markup gives feed videos their real publish date.
- Improvement: When “delete data on uninstall” is on, deleting the plugin also removes the YouTube API key and the cached feeds.
- Fix: Full-width galleries no longer stick out past the edge of the page in classic themes such as Hello Elementor, on computers with a visible scrollbar.
- Fix: The upgrade (checkout) window opens again; it could fail with a 520 error.
- Fix: The lightbox no longer keeps following the mouse after the button is released outside the window.
- Fix: Google Analytics never received 25/50/75% progress or video_watch_complete for Vimeo videos.
- Fix: The lightbox no longer conflicts with other plugins that also load Fancybox.
- Security: Hardened block CSS output.
Video Gallery Block 1.6.0
- Update: Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.5.
- Fix: After activating the plugin, the page no longer says you are not allowed to access it. The Freemius opt-in now opens first, then the first page of the plugin.
Video Gallery Block 1.5.4
- New: Video play events for Google Analytics. A video now sends video_play when a visitor presses play, and video_watch_progress at 25, 50 and 75 percent and video_watch_complete when they finish. Works with files, YouTube and Vimeo. Facebook videos only report that they were opened.
- New: Video events are also sent straight to Google Analytics when gtag.js is on the page, for example with Site Kit. Google Tag Manager is no longer needed.
- Fix: Facebook Reel links now open as Facebook videos.
Video Gallery Block 1.5.3
- Fix — Editor Hover Tooltip Visibility. Fixed an issue where the tooltip for the first row of videos in the gallery would be clipped by Gutenberg’s block boundaries.
- Fix — Editor Selection Border. Fixed an issue where the blue selection outline would be hidden behind poster images in the editor.
Video Gallery Block 1.5.2
- New — Animated Album Filtering. Switching album filters now features smooth FLIP layout transitions (sliding into position, fade-in, and scale effects) without relying on jQuery or external libraries like Isotope.
- New — Editor Interaction & Double-Click Preview. In the Gutenberg editor, single-clicking a video thumbnail selects it for editing in the sidebar, while double-clicking opens the lightbox preview directly.
- Fix — Editor Hover Tooltip Visibility. Fixed an issue where the editor interaction hint tooltip (“Click to select · Double-click to preview”) was clipped and hidden by thumbnail overflow rules.
Video Gallery Block 1.5.1
- New — Sort Order. Show the gallery in the order you added the videos, or set it to Newest First / Oldest First and let the block keep it sorted automatically — useful after a Bulk Import, where re-ordering dozens of videos by hand was the alternative.
- New — Row Alignment. When the last row of a gallery doesn’t fill every column, it can now be aligned left, center, or right instead of being left stretched to one side by default.
- New — Per-Device Column & Row Gap. Column Gap and Row Gap are now set separately for desktop, tablet, and mobile, matching how the column count already worked per device.
- New — Facebook Video Support. Facebook videos can be added to a gallery alongside YouTube and Vimeo. Playback uses Facebook’s public embed player, which needs no app registration or API key — unlike Facebook’s oEmbed API, which does.
- New — GDPR Consent-Gated Embeds. An “Require Consent Before Playing” option shows a consent overlay in place of the player until a visitor agrees, so no third-party YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook cookie is set before that. The choice is remembered in the visitor’s browser.
- New — Google Analytics 4 Video Tracking. A “Send Video Play Events to Google Analytics” option pushes a video_start event to window.dataLayer — with the video’s title, provider (YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook/other), and URL — every time a visitor opens a video. Works with GA4 or Google Tag Manager already…
- New — Cached Thumbnails. YouTube and Vimeo thumbnails are now downloaded into your Media Library the first time they’re needed and served from your own site after that. Every visitor’s browser used to fetch them straight from YouTube or Vimeo on every page view; that’s now one request, ever, per vi…
- New — Load More Pagination. A “Videos Per Page” setting under Layout Settings starts the gallery with that many tiles and reveals the rest, a page at a time, behind a Load More button. Off by default (0 = show everything, unchanged from before) so no existing gallery’s appearance changes on upgrade.
- New — YouTube Shorts Filter. An Options-panel control to show every video, hide Shorts, or show only Shorts — useful once Bulk Import has pulled in a mixed batch. Shorts are recognised from the link itself, so this needs no API key and no per-video tagging.
- New — Play Icon on Thumbnails. A small play icon now sits over every tile by default, so a gallery reads as video content before anyone hovers or clicks — can be turned off under Options. Once it’s on, Style → Item lets you set its color, background, size, and how much it zooms in on hover (or turn…
- New — Item Border & Shadow. Style → Item now has the same Border and Shadow controls the overall gallery box already had, but for each individual tile — rounded corners and a drop shadow on the thumbnails themselves, not just the gallery container.
- Fix — Filter button active/hover colors. The “Button Hover/Active Colors” control under Style → Filter had no effect on the active (“current”) filter button and, on the Load More button, could leave the hover color applied permanently instead of only on hover. Both now behave as the labels say.
- Fix — Custom player controls in the lightbox. Videos opened in the lightbox now consistently get the plugin’s Plyr-based player controls instead of occasionally falling back to the browser’s default video controls.
Video Gallery Block 1.5.0
- New — Bulk Import. Paste a list of video links, one per line, and the whole gallery is built: each video arrives with its title and poster already filled in, resolved through WordPress own oEmbed proxy so there is no API key to obtain and no third-party service involved. Duplicate links and lines t…
- New — Thumbnail Shape. Tiles can be 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 or 9:16 instead of a fixed pixel height, so vertical Shorts and Reels stop being cropped to a letterbox. Importing a gallery made entirely of Shorts links sets 9:16 on its own. Galleries built before this option keep the exact height they had.
- New — Video SEO markup, in the free version. Each video in a gallery is now described to search engines with Schema.org VideoObject JSON-LD: title, thumbnail, publish date and the player URL. It is what lets a gallery show up as a video result rather than as an unreadable grid, and it is the same m…
- Only videos that have a caption and a fetchable thumbnail are described — an invented title is worse for a site than no markup at all. Pasting a YouTube or Vimeo URL fills the caption in automatically, so this usually needs no work.
- Fixed: a gallery placed with the [video_gallery] shortcode had its SEO markup stripped, because the shortcode ran the whole rendered gallery through wp_kses_post(), which allows no <script> at all. The shortcode now checks the block it is rendering instead, which is the stricter half of what that f…
- The gallery is now rendered by the server, not built from scratch in the browser after the page loads. Search engines see the videos, thumbnails and captions; the space where the gallery goes is no longer blank while the page waits on JavaScript; and a gallery still works as a list of video links i…
- Fixed: the gallery never appeared on sites that delay JavaScript. The block only ever listened for DOMContentLoaded, which performance plugins (WP Rocket’s “Delay JavaScript execution”, LiteSpeed, Perfmatters) run scripts after. On those sites visitors saw an empty space.
- Fixed: tablet and mobile column counts. Items kept a pixel gutter that the responsive rules did not account for, so each was wider than the column it had to fit — a gallery set to two columns on tablet rendered one.
- Fixed: album filters broke for any album name that was not plain English. Album classes were slugified from the name, which dropped every Bengali, Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK character and produced an invalid selector; names starting with a digit did too, and names that slugified alike (“Music Videos”…
- Fixed: broken YouTube thumbnails. The block always asked for maxresdefault.jpg, which does not exist for every video. Thumbnails now step down through the sizes YouTube actually has.
- Vimeo thumbnails. Pasting a Vimeo URL now fills in the title and the poster, the same as YouTube. Existing Vimeo videos have their thumbnail resolved on the server and cached.
- Fixed: captions with formatting showed the visitor literal <b> tags.
- Fixed: one broken gallery took down every other gallery on the page.
- Fixed: galleries appeared in the site’s own search results, and following the result landed on the front page. The Video Gallery post type is admin-only now; nothing about editing changes.
- Fixed: closing a lightbox could break other galleries — and any other plugin using the same lightbox — on the same page. The lightbox also opens over the page now rather than inside the gallery, so themes can no longer clip it.
- Fixed: the editor’s Get Premium link never pointed at the local pricing screen, and the editor never loaded its translations. Both were attached to a script handle that does not exist (vgb-video-gallery-block-editor-script rather than vgb-video-gallery-editor-script).
- Added: a Show Filter Bar toggle. The setting existed in the block’s data but was never read, and there was no control for it.
- Removed jQuery and Isotope from the front end (about 120 KB less JavaScript). Filtering is no longer silently dead on sites that defer or dequeue jQuery, and the front-end layout now matches the editor.
- Thumbnails are lazy-loaded and carry alt text; filter buttons and thumbnail links carry accessible labels.
- Video URLs are looked up through WordPress’s own oEmbed proxy instead of a third-party service the site owner never agreed to.
- Fixed a stray align class on every gallery, a stylesheet rule that forced the dashicons font onto unrelated elements on the front end, and two galleries on one page overriding each other’s poster fit.
Video Gallery Block 1.4.1
- Improved block metadata, keywords, and search discoverability in the Gutenberg editor.
Video Gallery Block 1.4.0
- Added 23 new premium blocks including Video Shorts Reel, Video Showcase Wall, Video Curriculum Accordion, Video Hotspot Scene, Video Tabs Gallery, Video Scrollytelling Showcase, Video Timeline Gallery, Video Bento Grid, Video Comparison Gallery, Video Justified Gallery, Video Expanding Panels, Vide…
- Introduced a redesigned admin dashboard with an improved user experience.
- Performance: Greatly improved page performance when several video blocks are used on the same page.
- Performance: Videos no longer load data in the background — they now load only when played (on hover or click), reducing bandwidth and CPU usage and keeping scrolling smooth.
- Parallax Row Video Gallery: Fixed scroll stuttering by switching the parallax effect to GPU-accelerated, requestAnimationFrame-based updates and rendering posters instead of video elements until played.
- Video Carousel Gallery: Cards now show a poster image and load the video only on hover; off-screen videos are fully released.
- Video Slider: Now uses click-to-play, so videos no longer stream in the background.
- Video Testimonial Section: Idle cards render lightweight poster images instead of video elements, and card heights are now consistent.
- Video Playlist Gallery: Up Next durations now load lazily, and fixed an issue where selecting a video from the playlist did not start playing.
- Minor fixes and styling updates.
Video Gallery Block 1.1.3
Video Gallery Block 1.1.2
- Compliance updates and security enhancements for directory guidelines.
Video Gallery Block 1.1.1
- Fixed minor issues.
- Added 8 new block styles.
- Added new shortcode styles.
- Added new dashboard.
20252 releases
Video Gallery Block 1.1.0
- Updated Fancybox library to v5.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.8
- Added option to hide the “All” album filter.
20241 release
Video Gallery Block 1.0.7
- Added custom label option for common filter.
20234 releases
Video Gallery Block 1.0.6
- Added gallery shadow options.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.5
- Improved vertical video height handling.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.4
- Added video captions.
- Prevented loading scripts when block is not used.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.3
- Added translation support.
20223 releases
Video Gallery Block 1.0.2
- Fixed add/remove video issues.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.1
- Automatic video thumbnail generation.
Video Gallery Block 1.0.0
- Initial release.
Questions about Video Gallery Block’s releases
What is the latest version of Video Gallery Block?
1.7.0, released on Oct 31, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.
How often is Video Gallery Block updated?
12 releases in the last year, about one every 21 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2022.
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