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Embeds for YouTube · Version history

Embeds for YouTube changelog and version history

Latest version
5.4
Apr 18, 2025 (1 year ago)
Releases
31
since 2010
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20104 releases
  • 20114 releases
  • 20124 releases
  • 20133 releases
  • 20154 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20191 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20212 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20251 release

20251 release

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.4Latest

    • Maintenance: Rename plugin to comply with WordPress.org plugin guidelines. More info here.
    • Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.8.
    • Bug: Removed broken and insecure download YouTube feature; removal also complies with Google’s terms of service.

20241 release

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.3.1

    • Maintenance: Update made to plugin meta

20232 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.3

    • Enhancement: Added some new, shinier meta to the plugin file. It doesn’t do anything other than make me look like a slightly more competent developer. Just
    • Maintenance: I retired the showinfo parameter some time ago but, like some poor cleaner, sweeping things under the bed, I left some remnants behind – I’ve now cleaned those up properly
    • Maintenance: Google has got rid of the search option. Boo. So, I’ve removed all the options for that. Sorry, but blame those people who “do no evil”
    • Maintenance: Removed the code that added debug output to your HTML. This way, your page output is slightly smaller. Small is mighty, don’t forget!
    • Bug: The start and stop parameters had stopped working. I’ve fixed this oversight.
    • Bug: Fixed some escaping I was using – I was missing a parameter but, as it turned out, it was the wrong type to use anyway. So, corrected that.

  2. Embeds for YouTube 5.2.4

    • Enhancement: As per my support post, I’m winding down work on this plugin. The best alternative is EmbedPlus, so I’m adding some links to the plugin to direct users to that

20222 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.2.3

    • Enhancement: Compatibility with PHP 8 and above

  2. Embeds for YouTube 5.2.2

    • Enhancement: A second attempt to fix that pesky vulnerability. Hopefully, all should now be well

20212 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 1.5

  2. Embeds for YouTube 5.2

    • Enhancement: What have I been doing during the pandemic? Picking through this code and resolving coding standards. Sigh. There’s a LOT. Not all are done but will be in future updates but, for now, the majority are. Based on the amount of code I’ve had to change, I’m worried I’ve broken something. B…
    • Enhancement: Look, I know I keep moving it but the plugin settings really shouldn’t be anywhere other than under the Settings menu. So I’ve moved it back there
    • Enhancement: Added native lazy loading to the videos. I’ll maybe look to add it to the thumbnails at a later time – does anybody want that?
    • Enhancement: I’ve improved the cache key generation. But, what this does mean, is that updating will cause all your Embeds for YouTube caches to clear. All your cache are belong to us
    • Enhancement: Clarified the API sign-up process in the README

20201 release

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.1.1

    • Enhancement: Added extra plugin meta
    • Bug: The URL separator was not always correct – it still seemed to work but it was sloppy
    • Bug: Reduced the top padding on videos
    • Bug: Single-video looping was not working due a change in how YouTube nows processes them (they now have to be single-video playlists for them to loop. Yeah, I know)

20191 release

  1. Embeds for YouTube 5.0.6

    • Bug: It would appear that some of the code for the editor button was still lurking in dark corners of the plugin. That’s caused those not rocking Gutenberg to see errors or, worst still, the dreaded “white screen of death”. Apologies. I’ve now hoovered out all of the muck
    • Bug: Whilst fixing the above, I noticed the title of one of the settings was wrong, so I’ve fixed that oo

20162 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 4.3.5

  2. Embeds for YouTube 4.2.1

    • Bug fix: Quotes were not being dealt with correctly in the template field. Now corrected.

20154 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 4.1.1

    • Bug fix: Corrected settings URL in plugin meta.
    • Bug fix: If plugin has never run before, ensure a default options array is generated.
    • Maintenance: Removed donation options and updated branding.

  2. Embeds for YouTube 4.0.2

    • Maintenance: Not really a bug, but in some circumstances I wasn’t initializing a variable used when generating the embed code. It worked fine but wasn’t best practice so fixed. Sloppy.
    • Maintenance: Modified the default parameters so new user videos should appear with the same options as on YouTube itself. Consistent.
    • Maintenance: I ABSOLUTELY refuse to call this a bug. But I was calling get_the_excerpt() to build some of the video meta data. For some reason, still unknown to me, other plugins were crashing as a result of it. I’ve removed it for now but am investigating the cause. Frustrating.
    • Enhancement: WMODE is now only added to the embed URL if it’s anything other than the default. Shrinkage.

  3. Embeds for YouTube 3.3.5

    • Maintenance: Added missing text domain, ready for automatic translation.

  4. Embeds for YouTube 3.2.1

    • Bug: Fixed issue where playlist was appearing for single videos
    • Maintenance: Improved Metadata standard

20133 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 3.1

    • Enhancement: Allow user to specify video resolution required (experimental)
    • Enhancement: Different languages can be specified for transcripts, other than the English default
    • Enhancement: API enabled on scripts by default, allowing for third-party modification
    • Enhancement: Can now add a link to YouTube under a video
    • Maintenance: Removed adverts from administration screen
    • Maintenance: Changed download bar default to be opt-in and re-worded option text

  2. Embeds for YouTube 3.0.1

    • Bug: Fixed menu options shown in admin bar
    • Maintenance: Updated links to point to instructions on Vixy.net website
    • Enhancement: Validate download bar code to ensure it’s secure
    • Enhancement: Passing blog language to language bar for i18n

  3. Embeds for YouTube 2.7

20124 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 2.6.2

  2. Embeds for YouTube 2.5.6

  3. Embeds for YouTube 2.2

  4. Embeds for YouTube 2.4.1

20114 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 2.3.1

  2. Embeds for YouTube 2.1

  3. Embeds for YouTube 2.0.4

  4. Embeds for YouTube 1.4.2

20104 releases

  1. Embeds for YouTube 1.3.1

  2. Embeds for YouTube 1.2

  3. Embeds for YouTube 1.1

  4. Embeds for YouTube 1.0

Questions about Embeds for YouTube’s releases

What is the latest version of Embeds for YouTube?

5.4, released on Apr 18, 2025 (1 year ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Embeds for YouTube updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 1 year ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2010.

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