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Wicked Folders · Version history

Wicked Folders changelog and version history

Latest version
4.2.0
Oct 2, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
113
since 2017
In the last year
6
about one every 65 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 201725 releases
  • 201815 releases
  • 201918 releases
  • 202012 releases
  • 202114 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 20233 releases
  • 20249 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 4.2.0Latest

    • New: redesigned settings screen
    • New: download media folders (Wicked Folders Pro)
    • Fix: security issue allowing users with contributor role and above to assign items they can’t edit to folders using the REST API
    • Fix: security issue allowing users with contributor role and above to overwrite another user’s folder pane state using the REST API
    • Fix: folder permissions not being applied when unassigning items from folders
    • Fix: security issue allowing SQL injection via the folder filter on the Users screen (Wicked Folders Pro)

  2. Wicked Folders 4.1.3

    • Fix: conflict causing some Divi 5 screens to not load

  3. Wicked Folders 4.1.2

    • Fix: folder pane appearing underneath sidebar in admin on WordPress.com-hosted sites
    • Fix: folder pane appearing underneath Elementor navigation menu on Saved Templates screen

  4. Wicked Folders 4.1.1

    • Fix: Fatal error sometimes being caused by recursive loop when viewing post hierarchy dynamic folder
    • Fix: users with contributor role and above able to delete folders using REST API

20257 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 4.1.0

    • New: setting to enable/disable lazy loading dynamic folders
    • Fix: infinite reload loop when a dynamic folder is selected and the ‘Don’t reload page when navigating folders’ option is enabled
    • Fix: selected folder not appearing when screen is loaded with a page hierarchy folder selected
    • Fix: Elementor admin bar overlapping folder pane on Templates screen

  2. Wicked Folders 4.0.0

    • Note: if you’ve made customizations to Wicked Folders, please read the release notes for possible breaking changes
    • New: ability to change folder colors
    • New: option to empty folder from context menu
    • Tweak: add clone folder option to context menu
    • Tweak: collapse folder pane toolbar buttons into a single menu button to save space
    • Tweak: lazy load dynamic folders for better performance
    • Fix: unnecessary re-renders in folder pane

  3. Wicked Folders 3.1.4

    • Fix: folder pane overlapping page content when using Adminify plugin with Adminify UI enabled

  4. Wicked Folders 3.1.3

    • Fix: fatal error appearing in debug log when saving folder sort order when Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order plugin is also active

  5. Wicked Folders 3.1.2

    • Fix: missing database table errors when using Polylang due to Polylang using wpml_current_language filter

  6. Wicked Folders 3.1.1

    • Fix: typo causing deprecation warning in PHP 8
    • Fix: deprecation warnings caused in some instances by REST API

  7. Wicked Folders 3.1.0

    • New: folder context menus
    • New: support for WPForms (Wicked Folders Pro)

20249 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 3.0.8

    • Fix: wrong item counts when using WPML
    • Fix: folder scripts not enqueued when a block containing an ACF WYSIWYG field is displayed in Edit mode inside the block editor
    • Tweak: update tested-up-to WordPress version to 6.7

  2. Wicked Folders 3.0.7

    • Fix: folders not sorted correctly after adding new folder

  3. Wicked Folders 3.0.6

    • New: add support for Everest Forms (Wicked Folders Pro)
    • Fix: folder names wrapping instead of truncating in media modals opened from WooCommerce products (Wicked Folders Pro)
    • Fix: folder pane erroneously appearing on WooCommerce Attributes and Reviews screens

  4. Wicked Folders 3.0.5

    • Fix: fatal error caused when a taxonomy query contains a relation key
    • Tweak: disable folder dragging on mobile to prevent folders from inadvertently being reorganized while scrolling (this can be turned off by using the wicked_folders_disable_drag_drop_on_mobile filter and returning false)

  5. Wicked Folders 3.0.4

    • Fix: folder pane not appearing in some instances due to JavaScript error caused by expanded folders data being encoded as an object instead of an array

  6. Wicked Folders 3.0.3

    • Fix: HTML character entities (e.g. &) appearing in folder names
    • Fix: item count wrong after cloning folder
    • Fix: folder appears in wrong position after cloning

  7. Wicked Folders 3.0.2

    • Fix: remove newly-added post types that don’t support dynamic folders from Dynamic Folders section on Settings page
    • Tweak: minor adjustment to CSS to make folder toolbar line up with media toolbar
    • Tweak: updated tested-up-to version

  8. Wicked Folders 3.0.1

    • New: add support for Restrict Content Pro membership levels (Wicked Folders Pro)
    • Fix: breadcrumbs disappearing when folder pane is toggled off
    • Fix: fatal error when date dynamic folders are loaded from cache
    • Fix: date dynamic folders not caching
    • Tweak: remove folder type parameter to avoid requests being blocked by firewalls that don’t allow backslashes

  9. Wicked Folders 3.0.0

    • New: bulk delete folders
    • New: REST API
    • New: add folder support for Restrict Content Pro memberships and customers (Wicked Folders Pro)
    • Tweak: move toggle folder from sidebar to floating icon
    • Tweak: refactor app to use React instead of Backbone

20233 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.18.19

    • Add static caching to timezone identifier function used by date dynamic folders for better performance
    • Fix PHP deprecated dynamic property warnings
    • Fix legacy ‘Folders’ menu item inadvertently appearing in some installs

  2. Wicked Folders 2.18.18

    • Tweak folder pane on Elementor Templates screen so that folder pane does not overlap header bar
    • Increase init action priority to 25 to accomodate Barn2 Document Library plugin which registers Document post type at priority 15 (this fixes an ‘invalid taxonomy’ error when attempting to create folders on the Documents post type screen)
    • Add return types to fix deprecated errors in PHP 8
    • Add ability to assign media to dynamic term folders (Wicked Folders Pro)

  3. Wicked Folders 2.18.17

    • Add nonce validation to AJAX functions to address cross-site request forgery vulnerability
    • Add capability check to AJAX functions to address authorization bypass vulnerability

20226 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.18.16

    • Tested with WordPress 6.1 and updated tested-up-to flag

  2. Wicked Folders 2.18.15

    • Add support for Wider Admin Menu plugin

  3. Wicked Folders 2.18.14

  4. Wicked Folders 2.18.13

  5. Wicked Folders 2.18.12

  6. Wicked Folders 2.18.11

202114 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.18.10

  2. Wicked Folders 2.18.9

  3. Wicked Folders 2.18.8

  4. Wicked Folders 2.18.7

  5. Wicked Folders 2.18.6

  6. Wicked Folders 2.18.5

  7. Wicked Folders 2.18.4

  8. Wicked Folders 2.18.3

  9. Wicked Folders 2.18.1

  10. Wicked Folders 2.18.0

  11. Wicked Folders 2.17.10

  12. Wicked Folders 2.17.9

  13. Wicked Folders 2.17.8

  14. Wicked Folders 2.17.7

202012 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.17.6

  2. Wicked Folders 2.17.5

  3. Wicked Folders 2.17.4

  4. Wicked Folders 2.17.3

  5. Wicked Folders 2.17.2

  6. Wicked Folders 2.17.1

  7. Wicked Folders 2.17.0

  8. Wicked Folders 2.16.6

  9. Wicked Folders 2.16.5

  10. Wicked Folders 2.16.4

  11. Wicked Folders 2.16.3

  12. Wicked Folders 2.16.2

201918 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.16.1

  2. Wicked Folders 2.16.0

  3. Wicked Folders 2.15.1

  4. Wicked Folders 2.15.0

  5. Wicked Folders 2.14.0

  6. Wicked Folders 2.13.4

  7. Wicked Folders 2.13.3

  8. Wicked Folders 2.13.2

  9. Wicked Folders 2.13.1

  10. Wicked Folders 2.13.0

  11. Wicked Folders 2.12.1

  12. Wicked Folders 2.12.0

  13. Wicked Folders 2.11.6

  14. Wicked Folders 2.11.5

  15. Wicked Folders 2.11.4

  16. Wicked Folders 2.11.3

  17. Wicked Folders 2.11.2

  18. Wicked Folders 2.11.1

201815 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.11.0

  2. Wicked Folders 2.10.1

  3. Wicked Folders 2.10.0

  4. Wicked Folders 2.9.4

  5. Wicked Folders 2.9.3

  6. Wicked Folders 2.9.2

  7. Wicked Folders 2.9.1

  8. Wicked Folders 2.9.0

  9. Wicked Folders 2.8.4

  10. Wicked Folders 2.8.3

  11. Wicked Folders 2.8.2

  12. Wicked Folders 2.8.1

  13. Wicked Folders 2.8.0

  14. Wicked Folders 2.7.3

  15. Wicked Folders 2.7.2

201725 releases

  1. Wicked Folders 2.7.1

  2. Wicked Folders 2.7

  3. Wicked Folders 2.6.1

  4. Wicked Folders 2.6.0

  5. Wicked Folders 2.5.1

  6. Wicked Folders 2.5.0

  7. Wicked Folders 2.4.4

  8. Wicked Folders 2.4.3

  9. Wicked Folders 2.4.1

  10. Wicked Folders 2.4.0

  11. Wicked Folders 2.3.6

  12. Wicked Folders 2.3.5

  13. Wicked Folders 2.3.4

  14. Wicked Folders 2.3.3

  15. Wicked Folders 2.3.2

  16. Wicked Folders 2.3.1

  17. Wicked Folders 2.3.0

  18. Wicked Folders 2.2.2

  19. Wicked Folders 2.2.1

  20. Wicked Folders 2.2.0

  21. Wicked Folders 2.1.1

  22. Wicked Folders 2.1.0

  23. Wicked Folders 2.0.7

  24. Wicked Folders 2.0.6

  25. Wicked Folders 2.0.5

Questions about Wicked Folders’s releases

What is the latest version of Wicked Folders?

4.2.0, released on Oct 2, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Wicked Folders updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 65 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from April 2017.

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