Title: Version 2.7.0
Last modified: May 21, 2026

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# Version 2.7.0

 *  Plugin Author [John West](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f1rehead/)
 * (@f1rehead)
 * [2 weeks, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-2-7-0/)
 * Hello everyone –
 * I just released version 2.7.0. The big change with this release is that the Gutenberg
   block now has a preview. It attempts to display the same aspect ratio as the 
   front end, but it could be a different size on the back end. There is no attempt
   to make the slideshow work; it’s just a preview so you can know that you picked
   the right one and get some sense of how it would look when published. I appreciate
   feedback.
 * On the bug front, I didn’t notice until after releasing version 2.6.0 that the
   text styling controls weren’t showing on new text slides until after the slideshow
   was saved. Big miss on my part. It was tougher to add feature than I expected
   but it should be working correctly now.
 * Lastly, I included some recommendations from the WP team. The Block API is now
   set to 3.0. There were no code changes associated with that (and I’m not really
   sure why it matters, to be honest) but they said it should be bumped up. The 
   impact of that is WP 6.3 is now the minimum supported version. Please let me 
   know if you’re impacted and we can try to figure something out. Also, I’ve started
   implementing more of the code style recommendations from Plugin Check (a developer
   plugin from the WP company that is supposed to look out for potential issues,
   but mostly it’s all nitpicking). There are a lot of those recommendations and
   they aren’t critical so I’ll probably spread that work out over several releases.
 * This will probably be the last version for a while unless something serious happens.
   It’s almost summer and I intend to be outside, not sitting in front my computer.
   🙂

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