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Widget Context · Version history

Widget Context changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.0
Oct 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
33
since 2009
In the last year
5
about one every 36 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20097 releases
  • 20121 release
  • 20135 releases
  • 20144 releases
  • 20161 release
  • 20171 release
  • 20183 releases
  • 20204 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. Widget Context 1.5.1-rc.2

  2. Widget Context 1.5.1-rc.1

  3. Widget Context 1.5.0Latest

    • Declare param, return and property types across the codebase where types are known, and refine lazy loading of the plugin option stores.
    • Feature: All context rules are now enabled by default, including those added by other plugins.
    • Plugin now verifies that WordPress is loading it before bootstrapping.

  4. Widget Context 1.4.2

    • Bugfix: avoid an undefined variable warning when rendering checkbox controls.
    • Mark as tested with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.5.
    • Update the developer tooling dependencies.

  5. Widget Context 1.4.0

    • Security: Ensure widget context settings can only be changed by logged-in administrators intentionally (CVE-2026-7615).
    • Require PHP 7.4 to match the WordPress core requirements.
    • Feature: Add a toggle to enable the legacy widget interface (non-block).

20241 release

  1. Widget Context 1.3.3

    • Mark as tested with WordPress 6.6 and PHP 8.2, see #72.

20231 release

  1. Widget Context 1.3.2

    • Bugfix: Fix the Widget Context settings link in the widget controls after moving the settings under the “Appearance” menu for usability (closer to the widget settings).
    • Feature: Add a link to the plugin settings in the plugin admin list, too.

20204 releases

  1. Widget Context 1.1.1

    • Mark as tested with WordPress 5.2.
    • Add test coverage reporting and remove Debug Bar integration since it wasn’t complete. Refactor plugin structure to support dependency integration. See #47.
    • Added local development environment, see #48.

  2. Widget Context 1.3.1

    • Bugfix: better support for URL rules with query parameters.

  3. Widget Context 1.3.0

    • Introduce the long-awaited “Exclude by URL” feature to prevent certain URLs from showing or hiding a widget when it’s matched by any other visibility rule.
    • Introduce premium support to help maintain the plugin. Subscribe now to get the PRO version of the Widget Context for free when it’s launched!

  4. Widget Context 1.2.0

    • Set PHP 5.6 as the minimum supported version of PHP to match WordPress core.
    • Developer tooling update: introduce PHP autoloading, PHP unit tests with proper mocking, linting for JS, switch to Docker inside a Vagrant wrapper for local development environment and update to the latest version of WordPress coding standards (see #50).

20183 releases

  1. Widget Context 1.1.0

    • Fix URL matching for URLs with query strings.
    • Introduce unit tests for the URL context.

  2. Widget Context 1.0.7

    • Mark as tested with WordPress 4.9.6.
    • Use the localisation service provided by WP.org.
    • Support for Composer.

  3. Widget Context 1.0.6

    • Fix path to admin scripts and styles, props @tedgeving.
    • Mark as tested with WordPress 4.9.2.

20171 release

  1. Widget Context 1.0.5

    • Confirm the plugin works with the latest version of WordPress.
    • Add support for continuous testing via wp-dev-lib.

20161 release

  1. Widget Context 1.0.4

    • Confirm the plugin works with the latest version of WordPress.
    • Fix the PHP class constructor warning.
    • Move the widget context settings link.
    • Fix the initial context state in the customizer.

20144 releases

  1. Widget Context 1.0.3

    • Include Russian translation (Thanks Flector!).
    • Add textdomain to the remaining strings.
    • Enable debugging if Debug Bar is available.

  2. Widget Context 1.0.2

    • Load available custom post types and taxonomies right before visibility checks to avoid PHP warnings.
    • Run visibility checks only after the main post query has run. Fixes issues with WooCommerce.
    • Load our CSS and Javascript files only on widget and customizer admin pages.

  3. Widget Context 1.0.1

    • Fix PHP warning in custom post type and taxonomy module.

  4. Widget Context 1.0

    • Public release of the 1.0 refactoring.

20135 releases

  1. Widget Context 0.8.3

    • Fix PHP warning that occurred on PHP 5.2.x.

  2. Widget Context 0.8.2

    • Improved SSL/HTTPS detection.
    • Fix: Ensure that is_active_sidebar() & is_dynamic_sidebar() don’t return true when there are no widgets displayed on a page.
    • Two new filters so that other plugins can override widget context display/visibility logic.

  3. Widget Context 0.8.1

    • Revert back to changing callback function in $wp_registered_widgets for attaching widget context setting controls.
    • Fix the word count logic.

  4. Widget Context 0.8

    • Major code rewrite and refactoring to improve performance and usability.
    • Fix bugs with URL targeting and empty lines in the “Target by URL” textarea.

  5. Widget Context 0.7.2

    • Fix PHP warnings/notices. Props to James Collins.

20121 release

  1. Widget Context 0.7.1

    • Confirm that the plugin works with the latest version of WP.

20097 releases

  1. Widget Context 0.7

    • Bug fix: check for active sidebars only after $paged has been set.

  2. Widget Context 0.6

  3. Widget Context 0.4.5

  4. Widget Context 0.4.4

  5. Widget Context 0.4.3

  6. Widget Context 0.4.2

  7. Widget Context 0.4.1

Questions about Widget Context’s releases

What is the latest version of Widget Context?

1.5.0, released on Oct 9, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Widget Context updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 36 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2009.

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