Media Hovers WordPress Plugin

Updates / Changelog

VERSION 5.35 [30.3.2025]

 - [UPDATE] skins improvement
 - [FIX] mobile video youtube 

VERSION 5.25 [23.11.2024]

 - [UPDATE] lightbox css for buttons  

VERSION 5.21 [20.10.2024]

 - [UPDATE] detect mobile query
 - [UPDATE] playback method deactivate playback by click anywhere out of plugin area

VERSION 5.11 [5.10.2024]

 - [UPDATE] WordPress latest compatibility

VERSION 5.05 [31.8.2024]

 - [FIX] mobile playback ios

VERSION 5.01 [25.6.2024]

 - [UPDATE] small improvements

VERSION 5.0 [1.4.2024]

 - [UPDATE] visual progress in thumbnail
 - [UPDATE] youtube, vimeo resume video time on hover if Rewind On Hover is false
 - [UPDATE] load more on page scroll without load more button 
 - [ADD] observer load more method 
 - [ADD] navigator share
 - [ADD] on / off subtitle button
 - [ADD] on / off volume button 
 - [UPDATE] update to SVG icons

VERSION 4.8 [27.11.2023]

 - [FIX] link or lightbox may not work with some skins like Sarah, Bubba or Zoe

VERSION 4.75 [23.7.2023]

 - [ADD] autoplay Videos On Start Mode mode viewport (scroll into view to play)
 - [UPDATE] update lightbox, option to provide full url for youtube, vimeo, iframe 

VERSION 4.7 [15.7.2023]

 - [UPDATE] pagination / load more now works with filter categories
 - [UPDATE] video autoplay mode all now works with justify mode if thumbnails are used
 - [ADD] option to display subtitles on hover for video, Youtube, Vimeo or audio

VERSION 4.35 [26.3.2023]

 - [FIX] using swipe navigation doesnt change active thumbnail in lightbox
 - [ADD] image zoom pan in lightbox

VERSION 4.32 [20.3.2023]

 - [FIX] using swipe navigation in lightbox would prevent video controls from showing on tap
 - [FIX] fullscreen ipad not working 

VERSION 4.3 [4.2.2023]

 - [FIX] if custom css tab was never opened in edit player section, custom css would be lost on save

VERSION 4.3 [4.2.2023]

 - [UPDATE] converted to javascript only (no jquery dependencies)
 - [UPDATE] masorny, justify grid reload after search field use
 - [UPDATE] new lightbox and settings
 - [UPDATE] admin domain change image urls option
 - [UPDATE] global gallery hook for lightbox

VERSION 3.95 [26.11.2022]

 - [UPDATE] option to specify aspect ratio for images using image mode background image
 - [FIX] Vimeo not showing fullsreen button in lightbox

VERSION 3.92 [11.5.2022]

 
 - [FIX] some grid setting causing mobile playback method down not to work

VERSION 3.91 [6.4.2022]

 
 - [FIX] mobile playback method down causes image popup save dialog to appear

VERSION 3.9 [22.3.2022]

 
 - [FIX] lightbox type iframe missing
 - [FIX] lightbox hook handle spacing 
 - [FIX] undefined index supportShortcodeInTitleDesc
 - [FIX] ios 15 video not showing if not thumbnail
 - [ADD] carousel option, variable width carousel
 - [ADD] hover scale effect
 - [UPDATE] disable video picture in picture 
 - [ADD] option to specify different video quality for mobile (for html5 video)
 - [UPDATE] option to have thumbnail image as background cover instead of img element

VERSION 3.71 [9.2.2022]

 
 - [FIX] if images were not used, only videos, on mobile videos were not playing if Try to unmute video was true

VERSION 3.7 [10.1.2022]

 
 - [FIX] masorny layout sometimes not resizing properly on start

VERSION 3.66 [10.1.2022]

 
 - [FIX] export feature not working in some cases (Read-only file system in plugins directory) 

VERSION 3.65 [2.1.2022]

 
 - [FIX] export / import sometimes not working when wp prefix is different

UPDATE 3.61 [17.8.2021]

 - [UPDATE] video loader for html5 videos

UPDATE 3.6 [14.5.2021]

 - [ADD] new hover effects
 - [ADD] option to add video hover delay to start playback after some image effect has finished

UPDATE 3.52 [5.05.2021]

 - [FIX] custom CSS not saving sometimes

UPDATE 3.51 [13.3.2021]

 - [FIX] youtube video not looping

UPDATE 3.5 [5.3.2021]


 - [FIX] load more button not working
 - [FIX] justify grid mode not working well when pagination is used
 - [FIX] lightbox triggering when url is set and no lightbox is set, and all triggers are set to whole item
 
 - [UPDATE] option to upload image icon for lightbox, share, url link
 
 - [ADD] new title skin - Viva
 - [ADD] option to play video on touch down on mobile (only while finger is down)
 - [ADD] option to play video in tooltip
  

UPDATE 3.05 [14.2.2021]

 - [FIX] pagination not working
 - [UPDATE] choose where to apply autoplay mode (desktop / mobile)

UPDATE 3.0 [6.1.2021]

 - [UPDATE] option to use just videos without thumbnails (for self hosted media)
 - [ADD] load more items in the gallery when scrolling to window bottom 
 - [UPDATE] multiple galleries in page improvement (no instance_id)
 - [FIX] edit category creates new category instead of edit
 - [UPDATE] categories sorted by title
 - [UPDATE] admin backend translatable

UPDATE 2.85 [19.10.2020]

 - [UPDATE] video unmute improvements
 - [UPDATE] IOS youtube autoplay

UPDATE 2.81 [29.9.2020]

 - [FIX] disable hover on mobile always active when true

UPDATE 2.8 [22.9.2020]

 - [ADD] grid pagination
 - [ADD] search field

UPDATE 2.7 [14.9.2020]

 - [UPDATE] database improvements

UPDATE 2.65 [23.8.2020]

 - [FIX] link, lightbox click not detected

UPDATE 2.65 [11.7.2020]

 - [FIX] link, lightbox icon created even if trigger is thumbnail or whole item
 - [UPDATE] prevent video download on tap hold

UPDATE 2.62 [18.6.2020]

 - [UPDATE] image hover lazy loaded

UPDATE 2.6 [8.6.2020]

 - [UPDATE] category can be used in shortcode (select images with categories...), works with load more
 - [ADD] select default categories before image upload in admin

UPDATE 2.5 [8.5.2020]

 - [UPDATE] ajax powered gallery edit
 - [ADD] image categories
 - [ADD] option to add a button with url inside description
 - [ADD] support for shortcodes in title and description

UPDATE 2.4 [29.1.2020]

 - [UPDATE] hover items are faded in once thumbnail loads to prevent elements over thumbnail like title showing before image loads
 - [ADD] add custom classes to gallery
 - [ADD] restrain gallery width
 - [ADD] specify image ratio for placeholder when lazy load is used (or use placeholder from image size)
 - [ADD] justifed grid layout

UPDATE 2.35 [25.1.2020]

 - [UPDATE] video / audio only loaded when hover happens
 - [UPDATE] ratio no longer required if only videos are used without thumbnails
 - [ADD] muted video autoplay mode (autoplay all, slideshow, random)
 - [ADD] playback rate
 - [ADD] wordpress widget

VERSION 2.3 [1.12.2019]

 - [FIX] duplicate player, playlist function jquery not defined

UPDATE 2.3 [22.11.2019]

 - [UPDATE] hovers now work on mobile
 - [ADD] trigger playback on hover or click
 - [UPDATE] select which element will trigger hover, link and lightbox
 - [ADD] option to add HTML inside hover item 

VERSION 2.26 [11.11.2019]

 - [UPDATE] export gallery update

VERSION 2.25 [4.11.2019]

 - [UPDATE] export gallery update

UPDATE 2.21 [9.10.2019]

 - [ADD] set icon over hover element (video, audio, image..)
 - [ADD] optional video loader over Youtube and Vimeo hover

UPDATE 2.2 [30.9.2019]

 - [ADD] load more 
 - [ADD] lazy load images
 - [ADD] social sharing
 - [ADD] export / import playlist in csv

UPDATE 2.1 [30.4.2019]

 - [ADD] Masonry layout support
 - [UPDATE] other layout improvements for more flexibility

UPDATE 2.0 [2.2.2019] (Not compatible with previous version)

 - [ADD] media hovers now available with Youtube and Vimeo videos
 - [UPDATE] new layouts and styles

UPDATE 1.46 [16.11.2018]

 - [ADD] option to remove breakpoints and apply manual width to images

UPDATE 1.45 [7.11.2018]

 - [ADD] option to apply link to whole image thumbnail instead of just icon
 - [ADD] image hover option (display another image on hover)
 - [UPDATE] use tooltips option

UPDATE 1.36 [28.10.2018]

 - [UPDATE] auto sort break points from low to high

UPDATE 1.36 [25.10.2018]

 - [UPDATE] update to font awesome

UPDATE 1.35 [17.10.2018]

 - [ADD] auto grid calculation (calculate rows, columns and gutters)

UPDATE 1.3 [13.10.2018]

 - [ADD] option to disable hover functionality on mobile
 - [ADD] option to apply lightbox to whole image thumbnail instead of just icon

VERSION 1.21 [27.9.2018]

 - [UPDATE] small code improvements

VERSION 1.2 [6.6.2018]

 - [UPDATE] added muted autoplay for videos

VERSION 1.2 [14.4.2018]

 - [ADD] added "image" type will can display simple thumb and any content in lightbox
 - [UPDATE] lightbox can now contain Youtube, Vimeo, or any custom iframe as well
 - [UPDATE] some mobile playback improvements

VERSION 1.1 [9.4.2018]

 - [UPDATE] some code improvements

VERSION 1.06 [5.4.2018]

 - [UPDATE] update icons to font awesome 5
 - [FIX] some bugfixes in admin

VERSION 1.05 [22.2.2018]

 - [FIX] fixed bug gallery not saving image changes

VERSION 1.0 [11.10.2017]

 - first release