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WP YouTube Lyte · Version history

WP YouTube Lyte changelog and version history

Latest version
1.7.32
Aug 20, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
100
since 2010
In the last year
4
about one every 93 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 201025 releases
  • 201111 releases
  • 201211 releases
  • 20137 releases
  • 20144 releases
  • 20155 releases
  • 20163 releases
  • 20187 releases
  • 20196 releases
  • 20203 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20223 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20244 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.32Latest

    • override some theme that add a border and/ or a transition to a

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.31

    • improve accessiblity of the “play” button
    • fixes for 2 PHP notices that were sometimes logged
    • improve Gutenberg block parsing
    • add Curl timeout to lyteCache.php

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.30

    • avoid error logging when both description and title are not set
    • improve shortcode output sanitization to prevent possible Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting as reported by Muhammad Yudha
    • tested with WordPress 7.0 (beta)

20253 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.29

    • updated “tested up to” string to confirm LYTE is still alive
    • misc. small improvements, see Github log for an overview

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.28

    • add alt attribute to thumbnail image in the noscript tag (hat tip Ov3rfly)
    • fix for bedrock-autoloader compat regression (thx Gerwin)

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.27

    • fix for the _load_textdomain_just_in_time notice
    • fix for youtube URL in text getting replaced if the same URL is already replaced correctly, kudo’s to Nic Jansma!

20244 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.26

    • fix the figcaption regression

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.25

    • fix for regression that saw youtu.be links in WordPress blocks break.

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.24

    • Compatibility with bedrock-autoloader (thanks to Gerwin Jansen)
    • Improve alignment for Gutenberg YouTube/ video block (kudo’s to Benjamin Pick)
    • removed type=”text/javascript” attribute from <script tags

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.23

    • fix for PHP deprecation notice in PHP 8.2 in lytePartners.php

20231 release

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.22

    • fix for figcaption in WordPress video block disappearing (thanks Tomas Hartl !)
    • disabled “lyte kinda texturize” by default (can be re-enabled with a filter)

20223 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.21

    • bugfix for regression in parsing improvements which in some cases saw links to youtube being shown as LYTE as well.
    • improvement to lyteCache request sanitation (hat tip to Siina Chavoshlu for reporting & testing the fix)
    • other minor changes, see GitHub commits

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.20

    • misc. parsing improvements, resulting in YT shorts working as well.

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.19

    • improvements to the alternative lazyload feature (kudos to Stirius & believableUN and softromano for helping/ testing!)
    • lyteCache: if maxresdefault.jpg does not exist, try hqdefault.jpg instead (contribution of R33D3M33R, thanks!)
    • some extra filters

20214 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.18

    • small improvements to the integration with the YouTube API, thanks to enchamun and mountbatt for their assistance!

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.17

    • misc improvements as suggested by WordPress Plugins team
    • filter added to set description as proposed & contributed by Patrick Robertson
    • filter added to disable fallback to youtube thumbnail as proposed & contributed by Benjamin Pick
    • logic added to switch to different type of lazyload behavior proposed & contributed by @softmanro

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.16

    • removed old captions code (captions are not natively supported through the YouTube API + the Benetech backend was no longer working)
    • added extra sanitization, thanks m0ze!
    • optionally disable thumbnail fallback to youtube servers (contributed by Benjamin Pick)
    • general code cleanup (spaces, double -> single quotes around strings, …)
    • misc. smaller fixes/ improvements, see Github commits for details.

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.15

    • To avoid YouTube cutting API access because no requests were made for 3 months, LYTE now by default caches the YouTube data for 2 months, after which it is refreshed. Previously cached data only refreshed if the cache got cleared manually.

20203 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.14

    • fix WordPress core blocks “recent posts block” breaking when summary or full article were shown.
    • remove old language-files (translations are now entirely handled via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/
    • add logic to lyteCache.php to prevent (ab)use like e.g. hotlinking (needs to be enabled with lyte_filter_local_thumb_doublecheck filter) or lyteCache caching even if local thumbnail caching is off.
    • some smaller fixes.

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.13

    • fix regression causing HTML comments to break

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.12

    • fix for dash becoming double dash
    • move lyteThumbs.php to lyteCache.php because security solutions generally are traumatized by all things thumbs
    • add expiry for cached thumbnails (3 days) to ensure they are updated if the original image got changed
    • some other smaller changes, see https://github.com/futtta/wp-youtube-lyte/commits/main

20196 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.11

    • fix playlist that got broken due to the priority change (from 4 to 10)
    • add is_amp (and is_feed) checks to the new lyte_prepare function (which runs at priority 4)

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.10

    • fix regression for YouTube embed WordPress block (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-caused-by-upgrading-to-version-1-7-9/) due to changed priority in 1.7.9.

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.9

    • improved AMP checking (LYTE should never be active on AMP pages)
    • improvements to gutenberg block parsing
    • switch filter priority to 10 instead of 4 to allow “catching” more rendered YouTube videos
    • fix jsapi breakeage
    • misc. smaller changes/ fixes

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.8

    • misc. improvements to prevent structured data warnings from Google.
    • fix breaking locally cached thumbnails when mime_content_type function is not available.
    • tested with WordPress 5.3 (beta 3).

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.7

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.6

20187 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.5

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.4

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.3

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.2

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.1

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 1.7.0

  7. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.8

20163 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.7

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.6

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.5

20155 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.4

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.3

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.2

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.1

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 1.6.0

20144 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.5.0

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.4.2

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.4.1

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.4.0

20137 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.3.3

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.3.2

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.3.1

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.3.0

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.2

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.1

  7. WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.0

201211 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.9

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.8

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.7

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.6

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.5

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.4

  7. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.3

  8. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.2

  9. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.1

  10. WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.0

  11. WP YouTube Lyte 1.0.0

201111 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 0.9.4

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 0.9.3

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 0.9.2

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 0.9.1

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 0.9.0

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 0.8.0

  7. WP YouTube Lyte 0.7.3

  8. WP YouTube Lyte 0.7.2

  9. WP YouTube Lyte 0.7.1

  10. WP YouTube Lyte 0.7.0

  11. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.5

201025 releases

  1. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.4

  2. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.3

  3. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.2

  4. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.1

  5. WP YouTube Lyte 0.6.0

  6. WP YouTube Lyte 0.5.3

  7. WP YouTube Lyte 0.5.2

  8. WP YouTube Lyte 0.5.1

  9. WP YouTube Lyte 0.5.0

  10. WP YouTube Lyte 0.4.1

  11. WP YouTube Lyte 0.4.0

  12. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.5

  13. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.4

  14. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.3

  15. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.2

  16. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.1

  17. WP YouTube Lyte 0.3.0

  18. WP YouTube Lyte 0.2.2

  19. WP YouTube Lyte 0.2.1

  20. WP YouTube Lyte 0.2

  21. WP YouTube Lyte 0.1.4

  22. WP YouTube Lyte 0.1.3

  23. WP YouTube Lyte 0.1.2

  24. WP YouTube Lyte 0.1.1

  25. WP YouTube Lyte 0.1

Questions about WP YouTube Lyte’s releases

What is the latest version of WP YouTube Lyte?

1.7.32, released on Aug 20, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is WP YouTube Lyte updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 93 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2010.

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