Advance Widget Pack

Changelog

v1.5.1
Fixed a bug where every block could vanish from the inserter due to missing editor-script dependencies.
Fixed the Reading Progress Bar being visually capped to the post content’s width on some themes, by rendering it in the page footer instead of inline.
Fixed the Reading Progress Bar’s scroll-tracking script not loading on the front end.
Fixed an infinite-recursion bug that could exhaust available memory when the Table of Contents block was placed in the same post it summarizes.
Fixed the enabled-features option not being removed on uninstall.
Fixed a text-domain mismatch in block editor scripts that prevented their strings from being translatable.
v1.5.0
Added a Settings → Advance Widget Pack screen to enable/disable individual widgets and blocks. Disabling a feature hides it from the widget picker and block inserter without affecting anywhere it’s already placed.
v1.4.0
Added Table of Contents (widget + block) — auto-generates anchor links from the post’s own headings, and adds stable id= anchors to every heading on singular posts/pages so external deep links work too.
Added Countdown Timer block — target date/time with a customizable ended-state message.
Added Reading Progress Bar block — a fixed scroll-progress bar, configurable color/height/position.
v1.3.0
Added widget versions of Related Posts, Tag Cloud, Social Links, and Top Authors, so every block also has a classic-widget equivalent for non-block-based sidebars.
Fixed a cache-invalidation gap: assigning/removing categories or tags on a post now correctly refreshes the Related Posts cache immediately instead of waiting up to 15 minutes.
v1.2.0
Added four new Gutenberg blocks: Related Posts, Tag Cloud, Social Links, and Top Authors (leaderboard by views or comments).
Restructured plugin files to follow current WordPress.org conventions (includes/, assets/, uninstall.php).
v1.1.0
Security: fixed stored XSS across all widget title/text fields (now properly escaped).
Security: fixed a fatal error when saving the Author Details widget as a non-administrator.
Performance: added transient caching to Recent, Popular, Random, and Featured Posts queries.
Performance: replaced the view counter with a race-safe atomic increment.
Added native Gutenberg blocks for Recent Posts and Popular Posts (in addition to the existing widgets).
Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
v1.0.7
Code Cleanup
v1.0.6
Code Cleanup
v1.0.5
Bug fixes
v1.0.4
Bug fixes
v1.0.3
Bug fix
v1.0.2
Added Random Posts widget.
v1.0.1
Added screenshots.
Minor bug fixes.
Added stylesheet.
v1.0.0
initial release

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Author
saumya010
Version:
1.5.1
Last Updated
July 3, 2026
Active Installs
20
Requires
WordPress 6.3
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0
Requires PHP
7.4

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