Essential Widgets

3.1 (Released: May 26, 2026)

• Bug Fixed: PHP fatal error in Tags block — undefined variable used as callable
• Bug Fixed: Posts widget href attribute missing quotes around URL (invalid HTML)
• Bug Fixed: Scripts now correctly load in the footer across admin and public pages
• Bug Fixed: Deprecated wp-editor block script dependency replaced with wp-block-editor
• Bug Fixed: Several strings were untranslatable due to wrong or missing text domain
• Code: Various code quality improvements (strict comparisons, output escaping, i18n)
• Compatibility check up to version 7.0

3.0.1 (Released: January 26, 2026)

• Bug Fixed: Cross-site Scripting (Reported by Muhammad Yudha – DJ)

3.0 (Released: January 15, 2026)

• Bug Fixed: Mismatched text domain
• Bug Fixed: Missing $domain parameter in function
• Bug Fixed: missing_direct_file_access_protection
• Bug Fixed: Processing form data without nonce verification
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
• Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
• Compatibility check up to version 6.9

2.3 (Released: November 19, 2025)

• Bug Fixed: Cross-Site Scripting via the title parameter in widget shortcodes (Reported by Mdr https://patchstack.com)

2.2.2 (Released: May 13, 2025)

• Bug Fixed: Translation loading
• Compatibility check up to version 6.8

2.2.1 (Released: April 10, 2024)

• Compatibility check up to version 6.5

2.2 (Released: November 15, 2023)

• Compatibility check up to version 6.4

2.1 (Released: November 19, 2022)

• Compatibility check up to version 6.1

2.0 (Released: February 24, 2022)

• Compatibility check up to version 5.9

1.9 (Released: September 15, 2021)

• Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls (Reported by: Erwan – WPScan)

1.8 (Released: August 05, 2021)

• Added: EW Blocks
• Bug Fixed: More options toggle button issue in Widgets page
• Compatibility check up to version 5.8
• Updated: add_filter hook to ‘block_categories_all’ since ‘block_categories’ is deprecated since 5.8

1.7.4 (Released: March 07, 2021)

• Compatibility check up to version 5.7

1.7.3 (Released: October 13, 2020)

• Replaced join with implode as join(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated (Reported by: chrisfurness)

1.7.2 (Released: August 19, 2020)

• Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

1.7.1 (Released: May 08, 2020)

• Added: French translation by Charles GIRARDIN

1.7 (Released: March 17, 2020)

• Compatibility check up to version 5.4

1.6 (Released: November 12, 2019)

• Compatibility check up to version 5.3

1.5 (Released: June 04, 2019)

• Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
• Compatibility check up to version 5.2

1.4.1 (Released: April 09, 2019)

• Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

1.4 (Released: February 21, 2019)

• Compatibility check up to version 5.1

1.3 (Released: December 12, 2018)

• Added: Plugin action link
• Added: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs in Add themes and Add plugins page respectively
• Added: Styles for Author/Archive/Categories Widget
• Added: Themes by Catch Themes section under Themes panel in customizer
• Compatibility check up to version 5.0

1.2.2 (Released: August 24, 2018)

• Bug Fixed: Upgrade links to Pro plugin on sidebar (Reported by: katilynn)

1.2.1 (Released: August 15, 2018)

• Bug Fixed: Enqueue widget scripts in customizer

1.2 (Released: July 05, 2018)

• Added: Widget switch button
• Updated: Dashboard

1.1 (Released: May 07, 2018)

• Bug fixed: widget_categories, widget_archives class added
• Compatibility check up to version 4.9.5
• Update: Moved domain from catchthemes.com to catchplugins.com

1.0.1

• Added: Added span to show count
• Compatibility check up to version 4.9.4
• Enhanced Security: Replaced wp_filter_post_kses with wp_kses_post

1.0.0

• Initial Release