Version 2.7.5 (2026-05-15)
- Improved compatibility with PHP 8.1
- Added display of actual PHP error message on the snippet error splash page
Version 2.7.4 (2026-04-27)
- Fixed error caused by dependencies
Version 2.7.3 (2026-04-23)
- Added an option to disable the Active Snippets notice from the menu
- Fixed issue with tags area is not visible unless you enable/disable it from Screen Options
- Fixed issue with text snippets paragraph formatting when rendered via shortcode
- Fixed issue where Tags and Custom shortcode names are not imported when importing snippets
- Enhanced security
- Updated dependencies
Version 2.7.2 (2026-01-27)
- This release focuses on improving the security and robustness of snippet type handling in the codebase.
Version 2.7.1 (2026-01-21)
- Added a compatibility check for the Woody Pro version during activation to prevent fatal errors.
Version 2.7.0 (2026-01-19)
New Features
- Export and clone functionality now available in free version
- Active snippets menu item for better snippet management
- New feature to receive emails during fatal error caused by snippets
- New Improved Plugin UI.
- Non-premium snippets can now be accessed via API
- Use IPHub as Geolocation Tool. [PRO]
Enhancements
- Improved PHP code validation before saving
- Better Location terminology for improved clarity
- Added save hotkey support
- Enhanced snippet labels in library for easier identification
- Improved Add Snippet button UI for better user experience
- Updated license management system (SDK-based approach)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed translation and deprecation errors
- Fixed safe mode functionality
- Fixed location number field not appearing with certain conditions
- Fixed inactive snippets not being exported
- Fixed RTL (right-to-left) issues in toggle controls
- Fixed sync modal not appearing for advert type snippets
- Fixed license message display issues
- Fixed critical error with export logs tool permission checking
- Fixed trashing posts from removing associated metadata
Version 2.6.1 (2025-10-21)
- fix error with missing asset files
Version 2.6.0 (2025-10-20)
Woody Snippets plugin has been acquired by Themeisle 🎉
We’re happy to announce that Themeisle is now the new owner of Woody Snippets. This acquisition will help ensure the plugin’s continued development, better support, and exciting new updates in the future.
Your existing setup will continue to work as usual — no action is required on your part.
2.5.1
- Fixed: [insert_php] shortcodes are no longer supported due to the security risk to your site.
- Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.5
- Fixed: Compatibility with php 8.3
2.5.0
- Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.4
- Fixed: Compatibility with php 8.2
2.4.10
- Minor fixes
- New API for Snippets Library
2.4.9
2.4.8
- Fixed: Reset priority when saving snippet
2.4.7
- Fixed: Some bugs and issues
2.4.6 (31.05.2022)
- Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.0
- Fixed: Some bugs and issues
2.4.4 (23.03.2022)
- Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress 5.9
- Added: Compatibility with premium plugin
2.4.4 (23.03.2022)
- Allow post editors to use snippet shortcodes
- Fixed a bug in TinyMCE
2.4.3
- Updated plugin framework
- Added warning notice that using the plugin may be dangerous
- Added additional security measures for multisites
2.4.2
- Fix: Snippets library not load
- Turn off redirect after activate
2.4.1
- Fix: Snippets not working after updating to version 2.4.0, if Woocommerce is activated
2.4.0
- Add: Insertion locations for Woocommerce (PRO)
- Add: Snippet conditional execution logic for Woocommerce
- Tweak: Improved performance
- Up the minimum version of PHP -> 7.0
2.3.10
2.3.9
- Fixed: jQuery.fn.load() and other bugs after update to WordPress 5.5
2.3.8
- Added: “Execute shortcodes in snippets” option in plugin settings. OFF by default!
2.3.7
2.3.6
- Add WPML compatibility
- Fix snippet switch
2.3.5
- Fixed “Warning: filter_var()”. The attributes of the snippets work
2.3.2
- Fixed: compatibility with PHP 7.4.
- Added: JS snippets support attributes
- Added: Filter by type of the snippet.
- Added: Priority of snippets execution.
- Added: Sorting by priority.
- Added: Sorting by name.
- Added: New Advertisement snippet type.
- Added: Conditional logic for current page taxonomies
2.3.1 (26.11.2019)
- Fixed: Bug with images on the about page.
2.3.0 (19.11.2019)
- Fixed: Minor bugs
- Fixed: Import/Export. When user selected some files and clicked to submit, he could be get error “No files selected!”
- Added: Video preview for every snippets in the library.
2.2.9 (16.09.2019)
- Fixed: Due to a problem with WPML, we were forced to cancel the added WPML compatibility in the previous version.
- Fixed: Security issue
2.2.8 (13.09.2019)
- Added: Compatibility with WPML proposed in the support forum
- Fixed: Security issue
- Fixed: Some users saw the code in the plugin description column. This could lead to JavaScript execution, which led to problems using the plugin Issue #1, Issue #2.
- Fixed: Conditional logic for taxonomies worked only inside singular posts. In taxonomies, tags, and categories, this did not work Issue #3
2.2.7
- Fixed: Critical php errors
2.2.6
- Fixed: Some issues with plugin security.
- Fixed: After save JS snippets, the html tags in javascript code were cut out in compiled code.
- Fixed: Minor bugs
2.2.5
- Fixed: Some issues with plugin security.
- Fixed: When you save the php snippet (running everywhere), there is a conflict with himself.
- Fixed: A notification to install the premium version did not hidden, even if the premium plugin was installed.
- Fixed: Removed spaces in beginning and end of the universal snippets. Please make fix your snippets if you have missing spaces at the beginning and end of the universal snippet.
2.2.4
- Fixed: Php error (Cannot declare class Post)
- Fixed: Some hooks did not work, when using php snippet with space to run everywhere.
- Fixed: Slashes removed in css snippet: f058 becomes f058
2.2.2
- Fixed: Disabled wpautop for snippets
- Fixed: Added compatibility with plugin Robin image optimizer
2.2.1
- Warning: Support for the old shortcodes ([insert_php]) has been discontinued for new users. Users who have upgraded from version 1.3.0 still have support [insert_php].
- Fixed: Removed warnings about support for old shortcodes for new users.
- Fixed: Сkeditor editor over the code editor, the issue is related to The Rex theme
- Fixed: Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach(). (It’s the warning in plugin insert-php (method getMetaOption) because get_post_meta could return non-array value if $single is true.)
- Fixed: Some users lost the code editor
- Fixed: Infinite redirect after updating or installing a plugin
- Fixed: Infinite redirect on multisites
- Added: New snippet type: Html. Perfect for you if you do not use php code.
- Added: New snippet type: JavaScript
- Added: New snippet type: Css
- Added: JS and CSS snippets can be asset as external files
- Added: Compatible with WordPress 5.2
- Added: Multisite support
- Added: Premium plugin support added
- Added: Added setting: “Complete Uninstall”. When the plugin is deleted from the Plugins menu, also delete all snippets and plugin settings.- Added: Added setting: “Complete Uninstall”. When the plugin is deleted from the Plugins menu, also delete all snippets and plugin settings.
- Added: Added setting: “Support old shortcodes [insert_php]”. If you used our plugin from version 1.3.0, then you could use the old shortcodes [insert_php][/insert_php]; from version 2.2.0 we disabled this type of shortcodes by default, as their use is not safe. If you still want to execute your php code via [insert_php][/insert_php] shortcodes, you can enable this option.
- Added: Added setting: “Keep the HTML entities, don’t convert to its character”. If you want to use an HTML entity in your code (for example > or “), but the editor keeps on changing them to its equivalent character (> and ” for the previous example), then you might want to enable this option.
2.1.91
- Fixed: some users were redirected to about page an infinite number of times
- Fixed: safe mode did not work, since it could be started only after the snippet
- Added: php lint for code editor
- Added: hook wbcr/factory/bootstrap/cache_enable to disable caching of Woody assets. Some users use cdn, it may be useful to them.
2.1.9
- Fixed: demo snippets were created several times, because of which it could bring a headache
- Fixed: it was impossible to hide metaboxing with ads
- Fixed: some users were redirected to about page an infinite number of times
2.1.7
- Fixed: Multisite minor bug
2.1.6
- Fixed: shortcodes don’t work in No Cache Ajax Widgets plugin
- Fixed: in Gutenberg when creating a block, the drop-down list is not saved the state of selected option
- Fixed: menu was not displayed in multisite
- Fixed: fixed php bug with import_upload_size_limit function in multisite
2.1.5
- Fixed: It was impossible to change theme style for code editor
- Fixed: After updating plugin, formatting for code editor was destroyed
- Fixed: Safe mode doesn’t work for scripts running with shortcode [insert_php]
2.1.4
- Fixed: plugin tries to process shortcodes in php code, which causes conflict with do_shortcode
- Fixed: visual composer compatibility added
2.1.3
- Fixed: bug with escape html code in snippets editor, if you entered the textarea tag, it could destroy the editor.
2.1.2
- Added: 3 new snippet types. You can use PHP, text, and universal snippets.
- Added: Snippet export/import.
- Added: Conditional logic for text and universal plugins. You can show/hide snippets based on certain conditions.
- Added: Gutenberg support. A new unit for Gutenberg has been added. There you can select available snippets. You can also send content from the editor to a snippet.
- Improved: Support of attributes that are sent to snippets through shortcodes. Now you can use shortcode attributes to send additional values inside snippets. You can limit the number of supported attributes.
- Added: WordPress 5.x.x support.
- Improved: The code editor support. Now it has an inbuilt syntax checker and auto-complete.
- Added: TinyMCE rich-text editor for text snippets.
- Added: Snippet auto-placement on all website. You can automatically place the code to head or footer on all pages. Or you can insert the ad code to all posts (check out the documentation to learn more).
- Added: demo snippet auto-creation on plugin installation.
- Added: special feature to uninstall the plugin. If enabled, all snippets and plugin data will be removed along with the plugin.
- Fixed: error in values sent through shortcode attributes.
- Fixed: error in visual unit preview in Gutenberg editor.
- Fixed: snippet counter for tags.
- Changed: plugin name.
- Changed: plugin icons.
- Changed: plugin description.
2.0.6
- Changed the way to safely save snippets. Now in case of an error, you will not lose the snippet changes. And also now there is no verification for snippets created for shortcodes, because of what many users had a problem with saving their old code.
- You can get the values of the variables from the shortcode attributes. For example, if you set the my_type attribute for the shortcode [wbcr_php_snippet id=”2864″ my_type=”button”], you can get the value of the my_type attribute in the snippet by calling $my_type var.
- Added feature to set tags for snippets
- Added an instruction on how to export and import your own snippets
- Some bugs fixed.
2.0.4
- Fixed critical bug with $wp_query. It was a conflict with some plugins that overwritten the global variable $wp_query.
- All created and updated snippets by default, are now active.
2.0.2
Fixed a bug where you do not have enough permissions to view the page.
2.0.1
Attention! This new 2.0 plugin version, we added the ability to insert php code using snippets. This is a more convenient and secure way than using shortcodes [insert_php] code execute [/ insert_php]. However, for compatibility reasons, we left support for [insert_php] shortcodes, but we will depreciate them in the next versions of the plugin.
We strongly recommend you to transfer your php code to snippets and call them in your posts/pages and widgets using [wbcr_php_snippet id = “000”] shortcodes.
1.3
Fixed issue with str_replace() when haystack contained a slash character.
1.2
Changed handling of content.
1.1
Bug fix. Added ob_end_flush(); and changed variable names to remove opportunity for conflict with user-provided PHP code.
1.0
First public distribution version.
