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Visual Link Preview · Version history

Visual Link Preview changelog and version history

Latest version
2.4.2
Aug 19, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
13
since 2017
In the last year
6
about one every 52 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20173 releases
  • 20191 release
  • 20211 release
  • 20253 releases
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. Visual Link Preview 2.4.2Latest

    • Improvement: Block Editor iFrame compatibility
    • Fix: Prevent subscribers from accessing VLP preview endpoint

  2. Visual Link Preview 2.4.1

    • Fix: Prevent long post titles from causing horizontal scroll

  3. Visual Link Preview 2.4.0

    • Feature: Create VLP blocks in bulk from a list of websites
    • Improvement: Show 20 most recent posts
    • Improvement: Featured image in post selection
    • Fix: Prevent optional Microlink API key to be accessible by logged in users

  4. Visual Link Preview 2.3.1

    • Fix: Harden external URL metadata and image fetch endpoints against authenticated SSRF attempts by blocking localhost, private/reserved IP ranges, and unsafe ports

  5. Visual Link Preview 2.3.0

    • Feature: Elementor Widget for visual links
    • Feature: Use PHP to retrieve URL metadata
    • Feature: Use LinkPreview API to retrieve URL metadata
    • Feature: Automatic fallback to different provider
    • Feature: Manually retry using a different provider
    • Fix: Only show posts in search and summary that the current user is allowed to read

20253 releases

  1. Visual Link Preview 2.2.9

    • Improvement: Choose how visual links should render inside RSS feeds

  2. Visual Link Preview 2.2.8

    • Fix: Prevent potential misuse of shortcode by authors
    • Fix: Only output link in RSS feed

  3. Visual Link Preview 2.2.7

    • Improvement: WordPress 6.8 compatibility
    • Fix: Loading translations too early

20211 release

  1. Visual Link Preview 2.2.0

    • Feature: New “Compact” link template
    • Feature: New “Spotlight” link template
    • Feature: Template Editor for link templates
    • Feature: URL block in the Template Editor to show domain or full url
    • Feature: Optionally set your own Microlink API key
    • Improvement: Remove jQuery dependency
    • Improvement: Better compatibility with TwentyTwenty theme
    • Fix: Sanitization for summary field
    • Fix: Stuck in loading if fetching of external link data not working

20191 release

  1. Visual Link Preview 2.0.0

    • Feature: Easily change template style from settings
    • Feature: Automatic content in Gutenberg block
    • Feature: Automatic summary for internal links
    • Improvement: Better Gutenberg block with preview

20173 releases

  1. Visual Link Preview 1.2.0

    • Feature: New block for Gutenberg compatibility
    • Feature: Use nofollow and open in new tab for external links
    • Improvement: Better handling of encoding

  2. Visual Link Preview 1.1.0

    • Feature: Template system

  3. Visual Link Preview 1.0.0

    • Very first version of this link preview plugin

Questions about Visual Link Preview’s releases

What is the latest version of Visual Link Preview?

2.4.2, released on Aug 19, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Visual Link Preview updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 52 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2017.

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