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About Simple Image Widget
Simple Image Widget is a user-friendly plugin that allows you to easily add images to your sidebars. It offers customization options and can be used for displaying advertisements or creating image sliders. You can also find additional resources such as reviews, GitHub contributions, and the developer's website.Screenshots
Frequently asked questions
What is Simple Image Widget?
Simple Image Widget is a WordPress plugin that provides an easy way to add images to your sidebars. It allows you to display advertisements, calls-to-action, or build a slider using image widgets.
Who is the author of Simple Image Widget?
The author of Simple Image Widget is Brady Vercher.
How many active installs does Simple Image Widget have?
Simple Image Widget has 20,000+ active installs.
Can Simple Image Widget be extended or customized?
Yes, Simple Image Widget is built with extensibility in mind, allowing for the creation of new image-based widgets or customization of widget output using its template hierarchy.
Changelog
4.4.2 – October 12, 2017
- Changed the widget name to “Image (Simple)” to differentiate it from the core image widget introduced in WordPress 4.8.
4.4.1 – September 6, 2016
- Added missing text domains.
4.4.0 – April 22, 2016
- Enabled selective refresh in the Customizer.
- Removed PO and MO files in favor of WordPress.org Language Packs.
- Prevented errors if the main plugin file is accessed directly.
4.3.0
- Transferred to Cedaro.
4.2.2
- Show media extensions in the post finder modal.
- Added Dutch translation.
4.2.1
- Fixed a PHP 5.2 incompatibility that prevented the correct image from showing on the front-end.
- Fixed a debug notice when searching for attachments in the new find posts modal.
4.2.0
- Added functionality to search for posts to link images to.
- Added Japanese translation.
- Changed the method for generating cache keys. Should provide better support for the_widget() and similar methods.
- Deprecated the method for flushing a single widget instance from the cache.
4.1.2
- Added Serbo-Croation translation.
4.1.1
- Added Finnish translation.
- Prevent a notice about non-existent title when adding a widget in the Customizer in debug mode.
4.1.0
- Added the ability to hide widget fields.
- Added a field to insert HTML classes on the text link. Hidden by default.
- Removed “the_content” filter from widget text to prevent other plugins from appending content.
- Renamed /scripts to /js and /styles to /css.
- Improved handling of fields that have been removed in child widgets.
4.0.2
- Fixed the reference to the widget’s parent class to prevent an error.
4.0.1
- Allow more HTML tags in the text field.
- Updated customizer support and prevent cache poisoning.
- Added French translation.
4.0.0
- New template system to make it easier to override the output.
- Restructured to make it more intuitive for developers to extend the widget.
- Moved legacy support into a separate class that hooks into the widget.
- Works with the Widget Customizer added in WordPress 3.9.
- Improved compatibility with plugins like Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
3.0.4
- Fixed a slash preventing custom translations from loading.
- Dropped the text domain from custom translation filenames.
- Loading the text domain earlier so the widget title and description can be filtered.
- Minor code formatting updates.
3.0.3
- Fixed PHP class name formatting.
- Added ‘link_open’ and ‘link_close’ args to the $instance when rendering the widget display.
- Added a ‘simple-image’ CSS class to the image wrapper.
3.0.2
- Implemented feature for opening links in a new tab/window.
- Fixed a bug preventing links in legacy widgets to not work.
3.0.1
- Removed the main plugin file for the previous version.
3.0
- Complete rewrite with new media manager support.
