2026-05-07 7.1.4

• Removed banned.video code.

2026-03-02 7.1.3

• Improved: Change script to module.
• Improved: Load Vimeo player script locally.

2025-10-22 7.1.2

• Fix: Thumbnail caching and handling.
• Improved: General code quality.

2025-09-14 7.1.1

• Fix: Vimeo thumbnail URLs.

2025-03-21 7.1.0

• Fix: Link Lightbox now working.
• Improved: Do additional caching for thumbnails and YouTube data API responses. Do not call API again when there is an error.

2025-03-17 7.0.6

• Improved: No longer self execute when ARVE is not up-to-date and running.

2025-03-15 7.0.5

• Improved: Remove asset wrappers.
• Fix: Card thumbnail not visible in Firefox.

2025-03-08 7.0.2

• Fix: Broken thumbnails on old YouTube videos.

2025-03-08 7.0.1

• Improved: srcset generation.
• New: Ability to use custom YouTube Data API key.

2025-03-08 7.0.0

• New: Introducing a new ‘card’ style available with thumbnail_style parameter and option.
• Improved: Title tags are no longer h5 tags but just div and some font styles from your theme’s h3 are used instead.
• Improved: JavaScript part of the plugin almost completely rewritten in more modern and better code. No longer uses official YouTube iframe API script instead a minimalistic replacement is used. Vimeo iframe API is loaded on first click on a lazyload video instead of on page load.

2025-01-22 6.1.1

• Fix: Make sure srcset is not set when a thumbnail URL is manually set.

2025-01-22 6.1.1

• Fix: Make sure srcset is not set when a thumbnail URL is manually set.

2024-12-05 6.1.0

• New: Thumbnail, Title, Description … support for banned.video
• Improved: Use sizes=auto for thumbnails.
• Improved: Lazyload mode defaults. Featured Image as thumbnail fallback is now enabled by default. If not set Lazyload now has a default black image with some lines on it.
• Fix: Hide .navbar elements when lightbox is open.

2024-07-06 6.0.4

• Fix: Accessibility with buttons. aria-label was not correctly added.

2024-06-15 6.0.3

• Improved: Accessibility with buttons and link lightbox link. aria-label now contains the title, added aria-haspopup="dialog" to indicate the lightbox opening.

2024-05-22 6.0.2

• Fix: Show play button in lightbox mode with video file and no thumbnail.

2024-04-25 6.0.0

• New: lightbox_aspect_ratio shortcode parameter and block setting to make set the lightbox ratio differently from the thumbnail.
• Fix: Latest video from YouTube Playlist not working in all cases.
• Fix: Disable links feature not working in lightbox.

2023-04-05 5.3.5

• Fix: JS errors in some circumstances like ARVE mixing with other players.
• Fix: Some styles not correctly applying in the Block editor.

2023-01-25 5.3.4

• Fix: Link-Lightbox mode not working.

2023-01-21 5.3.3

• Improved: Accessibility for the play button.

2022-11-10 5.3.2

• Fix: Not working when audio embeds were on the same page as ARVE embeds.

2022-09-22 5.3.1

• Make sure the addon only runs when ARVE 9.7.14 or later is installed.

2022-09-22 5.3.0

• Fix: HTML5 video lightboxes closed unintentionally in chromium based browsers.
• Improved: Changed lightbox script from Big-Picture to its successor Bigger-Picture.
• New: Custom hover effect class for your own CSS styles.
• Removed old lightbox script Lity as an option.

2022-09-05 5.2.3

• Fix: Initial thumbnail dimensions.

2022-09-05 5.2.2

• Fix: Vimeo thumbnails blurry, not all sizes loading.
• New: “Darken” hover effect option.

2022-09-05 5.2.2

• Fix: Vimeo thumbnails blurry, not all sizes loading.
• New: “Darken” hover effect option.

2021-12-08 5.2.0

• New “Reset after played” option.

2021-03-11 5.1.17

• Improved: Cache busting for assets.
• Tested with WP 5.7.0

2021-02-20 5.1.16

• Fix: Thumbnail not showing up in certain situations.

2021-02-13 5.1.12

• Compatibility with latest ARVE caching system.

2021-02-10 5.1.11

• Fix: Lightbox compatibility with Divi.

2021-01-30 5.1.10

• Fix: Invisible videos

2021-01-24 5.1.8

• Improved: Corrected colors for Vimeo style play button.
• Improved: Simplified CSS and reduced size.
• Improved: Code improved and adjusted to ARVE 9.3.0

2021-01-21 5.1.7

• Fix: Wrong version check caused the plugin to not work correctly.

2021-01-21 5.1.4

• Adjustment to new ARVE.

2021-01-07 5.1.3

• Fix: Removed no longer working Facebook auto thumbnail code.

2021-01-06 5.1.2

• Fix: Vimeo play button style not clickable.
• Fix: Vimeo play button line break issue.

2021-01-03 5.1.1

• New: Vimeo play button style.

2020-12-14 5.0.1

• Fix: Issue with thumbnail positioning.

2020-12-12 5.0.0-beta13

• Fix: Error handling issue #2.

2020-12-09 5.0.0-beta10

• Fix: Error handling issue.

2020-12-05 5.0.0-beta9

• Fix: Some links not opening lightboxes.

2020-12-03 5.0.0-beta7

• Fix: Thumbnail height calculation caused errors in some cases.

2020-12-01 5.0.0-beta6

• Fix: Rebuild oembed cache after activation and version updates.

2020-11-28 5.0.0-beta5

• New: Big Picture lightbox script.
• New: Option to go fullscreen when opening lightbox, and optionally stay fullscreen even after closing it.
• New: (Only YouTube & Vimeo, HTML5) Go back to original preview after video ends.
• New: Auto-pause/auto-reset other videos when another video is played.
• New: Auto close lightbox when video ends (YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 video)
• Improved: Dropped dependencies: jQuery, Lity lightbox, Object-Fit Polyfill.
• Improved: Lots of code and build improvements.
• Improved: When aligned get expanded, their align class will be removed. When a video end is detected (only YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 Video) the original state is restored.

2018-09-07 4.1.0

• Note: PHP versions below 5.6 will no longer be tested and future versions will require at least PHP 5.6
• Improved: Updated 3rd party libs Mobile Detect, objectFitPolyfill and Lity.
• Improved: 3rd party assets are now loaded from jsDelivr CDN. If you do not want this you can load them from your site or let a CDN plugin pick them up with add_filter( 'nextgenthemes_use_cdn', '__return_false' ); inside a mu-plugin.
• Fix: Some auto thumbnail code was not working properly.
• Fix: Removes WordFence malware warning by removing a comment in Mobile Detect that pointed to a malware infected domain.

2018-02-20 4.0.4

• This is also a test if the auto update process works for everyone, please let me know if you have issues.
• Improved: Updated Mobile Detect library.
• Fix: Thumbnails detection for YouTube playlists.

2017-08-12 4.0.3

• Fix: Vimeo private Videos showing 404 API errors instead of Videos.
• Fix: Prevent a PHP notice.
• Improved: Renamed “Grow on click” to “Expand on click” in dialog. Better English, right?

2017-05-04 4.0.1

• Fixed: inview-lazyload not working correctly.

2017-05-04 4.0.0

• New: \’volume\’ attribute takes 1-100 for HTML5 video.
• Improved: Simplified the inview-lazyload option to on/off – was getting too complicated. On uses it when it makes sense (on all mobiles, and when there is no thumbnail detected or set).
• Improved: Scripts like inview and lity lightbox are now only loaded when they are actually needed.
• Improved: Pointer cursor when hovering over the thumbnails, for themes that do not already add it.

2017-04-30 3.9.5

• Code needed for the new way ARVE handles sandbox
• Updated objectFitPolyfill

2017-04-03 3.9.4

• Fix: Deals with other poorly coded plugins that load the Mobile_Detect class without checking if it’s already loaded.
• Improved: Make sure ARVE Pro always loads its own, possibly more up to date version of Mobile_Detect
• Improved: Updated the Mobile_Detect class.
• Improved how aspect ratio is handled with HTML5 videos.

2017-03-25 3.9.3

• Fix: Licensing storage mess. Some users may have to reenter their keys on the licensing page when updating from very old versions.
• Improved: Better browser support by using Autoprefixer with the config from Bootstrap
• Some minor code improvements.

2017-03-20 3.9.2

• Fix: Broken CSS.

2017-03-20 3.9.1

• Fix: Lightboxes with non-HTML5 videos did not close.

2017-03-20 3.9.0

• Fix: Lightboxes are now sized correctly.
• Fix: HTML5 videos in lightbox mode could not be opened twice.
• Improved: HTML5 video now automatically pauses when lightboxes are closed and resumes when reopened.
• Improved: Now minified files are served when WP_DEBUG is not true

2017-03-12 3.8.4

• Improved: Removed incorrect href on