WP Plugin Info Card

Changelog

6.3.1

• Released 2026-04-05
• Fix: Certain CSS minifiers would strip out Star Rating CSS or encode it.
• Fix: JavaScript could load in unpredictable places, causing previews to be warped.
• Fix: SVG closing HTML for footer SVGs could break some blocks/query monitor.
• Fix: Resolving PHPStan errors, extra harderning.
• Fix: Multiple cards in the card block would be mis-aligned on tablet.

6.3.0

• Released 2026-02-05
• Fixing nonce validation in custom plugin creation, fixing potential CSRF attacks.

6.2.0

• Released 2025-12-27
• New: Profile Badges block and shortcode. Display your WordPress.org profile badges on your own site.
• New: Screenshots block updated to block.json API version 3, bringing all blocks to v3 in preparation for WordPress 7.0.
• New: Added gallery capabilities to the Screenshots block.
• Fix: Theme and plugin download counts are now consistently rounded down.
• Fix: Resolved navigation style issues in the Screenshots block within the block editor.
• Fix: Resolved alignment issues with the Screenshots block in the block editor and frontend.
• Fix: Corrected icon alignment in the Screenshots block.
• Fix: Download button on the Ratings card has been corrected to extend full-width and height.
• Fix: Removing false height from Large layout card.
• Fix: Fixing alignment in Query block.
• Fix: Fixed overly aggressive sanitization of the author link in the Flex card layout.
• Fix: Prevented grid columns from stretching excessively.
• Fix: Removed a JavaScript warning in the GitHub Info Card block.json.

6.1.4

• Released 2025-12-08
• Bug fix: Dashboard widget wasn’t styled correctly.
• Bug fix: TinyMCE button wasn’t showing for classic editor.

6.1.1

• Released 2025-09-04
• Bug fix: Multisite installations couldn’t access REST APIs for new GitHub Info Cards and also Custom Plugins REST API.
• Bug fix: Screenshots Card was erroring out in the block editor on iframe only installs.

6.1.0

• Released 2025-09-02
• New Feature: GitHub Info Cards released. Now showcase your favorite GitHub repo using a block or shortcode.
• New: Admin panel option for enabling GitHub Info Cards.
• New: Cards support lazy loading for performance.

6.0.0

• Released 2025-08-19
• New feature: Custom Plugin Cards (read the 6.0.0 annnouncement). Create, import, and export these custom plugins.
• New feature: New margin controls on the plugin cards for better appearance.
• New feature: Added transforms to the main card block and the screenshots block.
• Bug fix: A lot of code cleanup has been done.
• Bug fix: Font sizes on title cards were too large and had too much padding.
• Bug fix: Resolved block icons not rendering correctly.

5.4.1

• Released 2025-06-02
• Resolving fatal error when uninstalling the plugin.
• Fixing typo with unterminated quote in SVG code.
• Setting false on script instead of null.

5.4.0

• Released 2025-05-30
• Security fix: Container ID in shortcode / block wasn’t properly escaped, resulting in a stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. Props Peter Thaleikis from Wordfence for reporting the issue.

5.3.1

• Released 2025-04-22
• Security fix: Follow up from last release, there is an additional security fix to resolve CSRF issues.

5.3.0

• Released 2025-04-21
• Security fix: Minor CSRF vulnerability reported. This update addresses any non-nonced code.
• Added security info to readme for better contact availability.

5.2.5

• Released 2024-07-20
• Read the full announcement post for this release.
• New feature: override plugin and theme titles, including in the grid layouts.
• New feature: hide a plugin or theme from a grid layout.
• New feature: Query block and shortcode now supports CSS Grid for layout structure.
• New feature: You can now skip and exclude animated GIFs from the plugin screenshots block for performance reasons.
• Block tweak: Main plugin info card block has better usability and overridable titles.
• Block tweak: Query block has been redesigned for more intuitive searching.
• Block tweak: Site Plugins Grid now loads immediately without requiring an extra button click.
• Block tweak: Removed the Edit button from the Site Plugins Grid as it was redundant.
• Bug fix: Lightbox wasn’t working on some installs for the screenshots block/shortcode.
• Bug fix: Stats columns in the screenshots block/shortcode looks much better on mobile devices now.

5.2.0

• Released 2024-07-17
• Read the announcement post for more details.
• New Feature: Added Easy Digital Downloads integration.
• Bug fix: Fixing large layout in the block editor.
• Bug fix: Fixing mobile styling in the admin options.

5.1.1

• Released 2024-07-09
• New layout: Ratings. Display plugin or theme ratings in a card format. Read the announcement post for more details.
• New feature: data is stored as options for redundancy and performance.
• Bug fix: Lazy loading the screenshots block was causing layout inconsistencies, so it has been reworked.
• New feature: can clear the backup options from the admin panel.
• Bug fix: Flex layout now has a max-width of 772px to match the smaller banner sizes.
• Bug fix: Fixed broken HTML tag, which was causing columns to invalidate.

5.0.0

• Released 2024-03-06
• New admin panel look and feel.
• New Plugin Screenshots block and shortcode allows you to display plugin screenshots.
• See ?the announcement post for more details.

4.0.10

• Released 2023-12-12
• Fixing translations not being set properly with the text domain.

4.0.9

• Released 2023-10-13
• Bug fix: beginning and trailing slashes broke the output on the frontend.
• Bug fix: editor now strips out slashes on blur.
• Enhancement: copying/pasting a .org URL into the block editor now automatically converts it to a slug.

4.0.7

• Released 2023-08-05
• Fixed a block editor bug where certain plugins were not returning a require argument.
• Fixed a block editor bug where the site plugin list wasn’t loading to due an invalid object type.
• Tested with WordPress 6.3 and resolved any deprecation notices.

4.0.5

• Released 2023-06-17
• Fixed a bug where the WordPress default layout was not saving.
• Added block transforms for the main block so that pasting a theme or plugin URL should pull up WP Plugin Info Card automatically.
• Added block transform to convert from regular embed into info card block.

4.0.1

• Released 2023-02-14
• Fixing undefined index in the main shortcode output.

4.0.0

• Released 2023-01-20
• New shortcode and block: Site Plugins Card Grid.
• The plugin’s code and build scripts have been updated to the latest standards.

3.4.6

• Released 2023-01-07
• Added ability to sort results by active installs, downloads, and last updated in the Query shortcode/block.

3.4.2

• Released 2023-01-02
• Fixing defaults not being applied correctly for blocks.

3.4.1

• Released 2022-12-30
• The Plugin Info Card Query block got a bit of a makeover.
• Fixing numerous style and data inconsistencies in the block editor.
• Updating block editor and plugin build scripts. See GitHub.

3.3.3

• Released 2021-06-04
• Re-worked admin panel options.
• Re-worked primary Gutenberg block.

3.1.21

• WordPress 5.5 compatibility.

3.1.20

• Released 2020-01-30
• Improved Gutenberg block loading and edit screens.
• Blocks are full-width by default.
• Added block previews to blocks.
• New multi mode to allow multiple plugin output using one shortcode or one block.
• Added two new color schemes.

3.1.16

• Released 2019-06-23
• Gutenberg block improvements
• New color scheme (Scheme 12) for Magenta.

3.1.15

• Released 2019-06-02.
• Added Center as the default layout choice.
• Added layout to the Gutenberg layout settings upon load.
• Code cleanup and fixes.

3.1.12

• Released 2019-05-24
• Documentation updates.
• New scheme – Dark mode

3.1.11

• Released 2019-05-21
• Fixing card styles not showing properly.

3.1.10

• Released 2019-05-21
• Documentation Update

3.1.9

• Released 2019-05-17
• Gutenberg fixes and enhancements
• New FLEX layout option in Gutenberg and the shortcodes

3.1.5

• Released 2019-05-15
• Adding loading animation to Gutenberg blocks
• Fixed theme download count from active installs to downloads

3.1.1

• Released 2019-05-13
• Fixed float on one column query layouts

3.1.0

• Released 2019-05-13
• Added Query Selector Gutenberg block
• Removing Custom from Gutenberg blocks as it makes no sense from a block perspective
• Fixing PHP error in query Selector
• Adding Reset button to Gutenberg blocks so you can change your settings

3.0.1

• Released 2019-03-18
• Fixing PHP notices and showing theme download count in dashboard widget.

3.0.0

• Released 2019-03-17
• Fixed downloaded being blank (changed to active installs)
• Added Gutenberg block

2.5.2 – 03/14/2019

• Tested on WP 5.1 with success!
• Tested on WP 4.7.3 with success!
• Fix broken image URLs after plugins directory update

2.5.1 – 11/03/2016

• French translation update (thanks to @wolforg)
• Change text-domain to take advantage of language packs translate.wordpress.org

2.5 – 08/19/2016

• New: Add “WordPress” layouts for plugins and themes
• New: Add the ability to use custom queries to retrieve plugins & themes by tags, author, etc. (new shortcode: wp-pic-query)
• New: The new shortcode wp-pic-query is able to output items in a grid system (1, 2 or 3 cols).
• New: use wppic_api_query hook to perform query customization
• New: use wppic_query_content to filter what wp-pic-query shortcode returns
• Fix translations + add new string to translations files
• Fix live preview URL for themes
• Fix typo on themes layouts
• Fix a warning in the theme large layout
• Improve API parser (store more data from the API). Eg: active installs, description
• Improve CSS
• Improve register_activation_hook and register_uninstall_hook call for better performance
• Enqueue minified CSS (forget in the previous version)
• Update french translation
• Tested on WP 4.6 with success!

2.4.3 – 12/14/2015

• Fix an issue on options save in the admin page
• Tested on WP 4.4.2 with success!

2.4.2 – 12/14/2015

• Make the shortcode_atts_wppic_default hook available thanks to the shortcode_atts() third parameter
• Fix a minor CSS bug on the large layout height reported by @posykrat: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/height-100-for-large-display
• Best compliance with WordPress coding standards
• New WPPIC_VERSION constant. Will ease improving refresh browser caching after plugin updates (mainly on CSS and JS files)…

2.4.1 – 10/09/2015

• Replace jQuery live() function by on() function to prevent JS error (fix an issue with Visual composer)

2.4 – 08/25/2015

• Tested on WP 4.3 with success!

2.3.9

• Fix a PHP warning using is_wp_error if plugin or theme slug does not exists
• Fix a JS bug on the preview card when changing the color sheme on the fly
• Minor CSS fix in the admin with WP 4.2 (.card class is now used by the core in admin)
• Tested on WP 4.2 with success!
• readme.txt update

2.3.8

• Serbo-Croatian translation by Andrijana Nikolic from Web Hosting Geeks
• Targeting user appreciation links to 5 stars 🙂
• Replace the credit’s link target with the plugin’s documentation english page

2.3.7

• French translation updated
• New option added to ask for displaying the credit on cards.
• Security issue fix thanks to Julio Potier 🙂

2.3.6

• Minor CSS fix – max-with 100% for large layout image
• Use PNG icon as SVG fallback on the visual editor button

2.3.5

• Change “Download” into “More info” on card layout
• Translations update

2.3.4

• Deutsch translation by Christian Zumbrunnen

2.3.3

• Minor security improvements
• Minor CSS fix on dashboard widget
• Purge transients on plugin activation/updates

2.3.2

• Fix date format on dashboard widget
• Date internationalization
• Templates update for better date support

2.3.1

• Minor PHP improvements
• Check if Memcache is loaded to prevent unncessary db request during transients purge
• Template update – differents links added on icons
• Remove logo from meta
• Minor CSS updates

2.3

• PHP fixes on admin error
• Better performance – options stored in a global var (less db requests)
• Relief of admin page functions (more maintainable)
• FR Translation fixes – backslash issues

2.2.1

• New hook added
• readme.txt update

2.2

• Total re-factoring of the plugin core files and structures
• Many hooks added
• CSS updates and fixes
• Translation update
• PHP fixes
• Fixed issue on Widget cache duration (5min)
• Random slug from slugs list (comma-separated)
• Large layout template added
• Color scheme and layout parameters added to WYSIWYG UI
• Custom template layout support
• Better scripts enqueuing (new action)
• New option to force scripts enqueuing
• Tested on WP 4.1 with success!
• New screenshots
• readme.txt update
• Special thanks to Hugh Lashbrooke for his help in improving the plugin 🙂

2.1

• Many hooks added
• More clean code and template render
• Clear cache button in admin
• CSS updates and fixes
• Translation update
• PHP fixes
• Remove ugly paypal donate button in admin
• Random slug from slugs list (comma-separated)
• Large layout template added

2.0.1

• SVG logo in admin menu (base64 encoded)
• Improvement of theme & plugin template
• PHP fix
• Square image for themes card
• readme.txt update

2.0

• Media upload in TinyMCE ui modal for default thumb
• Introduction of card template (beta)
• Theme API added + new template
• Using WordPress native functions to fetch data from API, including icon and banner
• Remove banner + logo parameters
• Many PHP bug fixes
• Js improvement (better ui)
• CSS improvement (better ui)
• Widget improvement fot plugins+theme display
• Set transient default lifetime to 720 (before 10)
• Specifice transient for widget (10 min)
• Translation string added
• Form validation in TinyMCE ui modal
• New admin options for theme API
• readme.txt update

1.7

• New option for color scheme
• New param for color scheme
• Minor CSS improvements
• 10 new colors schemes/skins

1.6.2

• Polish translation by Kuba Mikita
• Widget UI translation
• Plugin meta translation

1.6.1.1

• Logo on plugin directory list
• Remove unnecessary files from trunk

1.6.1

• New logo
• Minor CSS fixes
• Admin + widget minor updates

1.6

• New param added to ajaxify the card
• Fix minor php issue
• Improve dashboard widget ajax function.
• New admin option to activate or deactivate ajax on widget
• Minor CSS fixes and improvement
• Now use minify css and scripts un front
• Added error message when slug is wrong or plugin offline
• readme.txt update + admin page documentation update

1.5

• Shortcode may now be displayed everywhere in the page (content/widget) because JS & CSS are loaded via a global var.
• Ajaxify dashboard widget.
• Fix bug on saving empty plugin list with deactivated dashboard widget
• New param added to specify transient life time
• Daily cron added to purge transients

1.04

• Fix on foreach. Related topic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-on-saving-dashboard-widget?replies=5#post-6197891

1.03

• Fix on widget if plugin list is empty

1.02

• Typo fix.
• PHP fix if no plugin slug is set during options updates
• CSS fix for transparent logos
• Fix if required version already includes ‘WP’
• Now translatable + add French translation
• Update readme.txt

1.01

• Typo fix.
• Add link to admin page
• Update readme.txt

1.0

• First release.