Catch Web Tools

Catch Web Tools is a modular plugin that powers up your WordPress site with simple and utilitarian features. It currently offers Webmaster Tool, Open Graph, Custom CSS, Social Icons, Security, Updator and Basic SEO optimization modules with more addition in updates to come.

Catch Web Tools is available for free downloads at this point. Which means, you will get a lot of advanced features that would make your site interesting, efficient and professional – for free!

More Features

Supports All theme on WordPress

You don’t have to worry if you have a slightly different or complicated theme installed on your website. It supports all the themes on WordPress and makes your website more striking and playful.

Incredible Support

We have a great line of support team and support documentation. You do not need to worry about how to use the plugins we provide, just refer to our Tech Support Forum. Further, if you need to do advanced customization to your website, you can always hire our theme customizer!

Responsive Design

One of the key features of our plugins is that your website will magically respond and adapt to different screen sizes delivering an optimized design for iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices. No longer will you need to zoom and scroll around when browsing on your mobile phone.

Super Simple to Set Up

It is super easy to set up. Even the beginners can set it up easily and also, you do not need to have any coding knowledge. Just install, activate, customize it your way and enjoy the plugin.

Plugin Instructions

1) Installation #

a)Using the WordPress Administration Panel

You can download Plugins directly to your blog by using the Add New Plugins option in the Plugins sub-menu.
  1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
  2. Go to "Plugins => Add New"
  3. Search for Catch Web Tools by catchthemes
  4. Click on "Install Now" install and then "Activate" to activate the Plugin

b)Manual Installation using FTP

To add a new Plugin to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:
  1. Download Catch Web Tools from WordPress.org at Catch Web Tools page to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-web-tools.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/plugins/ and make sure that you do not already have a catch-web-tools-pro folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/plugins/ before uploading your copy of Catch Web Tools
  4. Upload Catch Web Tools to /wp-content/plugins/
  5. Activate Catch Web Tools through "Plugins", in your WordPress Dashboard

Updating Plugin Using the Administration Panel #

You can update Themes directly from the Administration Panel by simply pressing the update button in the main plugins page.

Updating Plugins Using FTP

To update Plugin though FTP, follow these basic steps:
  1. Download Catch Web Tools from WordPress.org at Catch Web Tools page to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-web-tools.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/plugin/ and upload your new copy of Catch Web Tools Plugin which shall replace the old files

How to activate and use Catch Web Tools? #

Catch Web tools supports Webmaster Tool, Open Graph, Custom CSS, Social Icons, Security, Updator and Basic SEO optimization modules with more addition in updates to come.
  1. Go to "Plugins=> Catch Web Tools" and click on Activate Button
  2. Then you can see "Catch Web Tools" option in Catch Web Tools, click on that
  3. After that you can see lists of option "Webmaster Tools, Catch Ids, Social Icons, Open Graph,To Top, Catch Updater and Seo
  4. You can activate and configure the option as per your need
  5. Finally, click on save

Change Log

2.7.5 (Released: April 17, 2024)

  • Bug Fixed: Deprecation notice in PHP 8.2
  • Compatibility check up to version 6.5

2.7.4 (Released: November 15, 2023)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.4

2.7.3 (Released: November 19, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.1

2.7.2 (Released: April 14, 2022)

  • Bug Fixed: Open graph custom tags/keywords not displayed correctly
  • Sanitize catchwebtools_opengraph_custom tags

2.7.1 (Released: January 21, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.9
  • Bug Fixed: Nonce and User capabilities check in ajax calls (Reported by wpscan)

2.7 (Released: September 18, 2021)

  • Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls

2.6.6 (Released: August 17, 2021)

  • Bug Fixed: Undefined variable issue $get_image in frontend/inc/opengraph-tools.php on line 25

2.6.5 (Released: August 05, 2021)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.8

2.6.4 (Released: March 07, 2021)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.7

2.6.3 (Released: September 24, 2020)

  • Added: Catch Updater module - Link added in info message

2.6.2 (Released: September 15, 2020)

  • Bug Fixed: Social Icons shortcode issue

2.6.1 (Released: Aug 19, 2020)

  • Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

2.6 (Released: August 11, 2020)

  • Added: Disable by default if WordPress version 5.5 or above is installed and show notice
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.5

2.5 (Released: March 13, 2020)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.4

2.4 (Released: November 20, 2019)

  • Added: Big image size threshold toggle option

2.3 (Released: November 12, 2019)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.3

2.2 (Released: August 20, 2019)

  • Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.2
  • Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

2.1.5 (Released: February 26, 2019)

  • Bug Fixed: Catch Updater module: plugin update issue when plugin name or text-domain does not match plugin directory name

2.1.4 (Released: February 25, 2019)

  • Bug Fixed: Catch Updater module: plugin update issue

2.1.3 (Released: February 21, 2019)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.1

2.1.2 (Released: January 22, 2019)

  • Removed: equal_height.js as it is no longer used
  • Removed: Customizer preview enqueue additional-javascript-preview.js, no file

2.1.1 (Released: December 27, 2018)

  • Added: VK social icon in Social Icons module

2.1 (Released: December 12, 2018)

  • Added: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs in Add themes and Add plugins page respectively
  • Added: Themes by Catch Themes section under Themes panel in customizer
  • Bug Fixed: Customizer header/footer script field showing when loading customizer even if the enabled option in unchecked
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.0

2.0 (Released: May 07, 2018)

  • Added: Auto Updater
  • Bug Fixed: undefined index issue Webmaster module
  • Compatibility check up to version 4.9.5
  • Update: Moved domain from catchthemes.com to catchplugins.com

1.9.8

  • Fixed: Webmaster Tools module Header & Footer script
  • Fixed: Set Catch IDs module’s status to ‘disabled’ if Catch IDs plugin in active
  • Fixed: Catch Updater module

1.9.7

  • Enhanced Security: Replaced wp_filter_post_kses with wp_kses_post

1.9.6

  • Added: Plugin updater in Catch updater module
  • Added: Header & Footer script option in Customizer
  • Added: Toggle ID column option to display in selected pages in Catch IDs module
  • Fixed: Maintenance mode on frontend in Catch updater module
  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.9.4
  • Updated: Disable Catch IDs module if Catch IDs standalone plugin is active

1.9.5

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.9
  • Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support )

1.9.4

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.8

1.9.3

  • Updated: Make image link protocol-less http:// or https:// to // ( Reported By: pianoworld )
  • Updated: Image addition script on admin theme options

1.9.2

  • Fixed: Display on hover without scrolling issue [To Top Module]

1.9.1

  • Fixed: Nonce issue in metabox (Reported by: james)

1.9

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.7
  • Code Optimization

1.8.1

  • Fixed: Catch IDs: ID column display issue in mobile devices

1.8

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.6
  • Fixed: Custom CSS and Social Icons CSS
  • Fixed: Added catchwebtools_to_top_options in uninstall
  • Updated: Catch Updater class constructor name changed to __construct()

1.7

  • Added: Social Icons Now have features to show their own social colors on hover and both hover and static
  • Fixed: IDs not showing in category and tags page
  • Fixed: Enqueue catchwebtools-to-top-public.js and catchwebtools-to-top-public.css only if to-top module is active
  • Changed: ID column width size to support upto 8 digit ids
  • Changed: http to https in links
  • Changed: #to_top_scrollup to #cwt_to_top_scrollup
  • Changed: Moved all options (CWT Custom CSS and CWT To Top) for Catch Web Tools to Catch Web Tools Plugin panel in customizer

1.6.1

  • Update: Made the ID column sortable
  • Code Optimization for Catch IDs

1.6

  • Added: To Top Module
  • Added: Pinterest Site Verification in Webmaster Tools
  • Added: Yandex Site Verification in Webmaster Tools
  • Added: Security Section In CWT Dashboard
  • Added: Catch Updater Module
  • Fixed: Undefined index issues
  • Optimized: Admin Styles and Scripts delivery
  • Optimized: Codes

1.5.2

  • Fixed: SEO Author meta error in singular view

1.5.1

  • Fixed: Custom CSS not working

1.5

  • Added: Social Icons for Email, Skype, Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pocket, DropBox, Spotify, Foursquare, Twitch TV, Website, Phone, Handset, Cart, Cloud and Link
  • Updated: Genericons to 3.4.1
  • Updated: Color Picker
  • Optimized: Social Icons Content Delivery
  • Optimized: Custom CSS Content Delivery

1.4.1

  • Bug Fixed: Replaced text domain from catchwebtools to catch-web-tools

1.4

  • Added: Feed redirect / custom feed options under webmaster tools
  • Changed: Support URL

1.3

  • Fixed: Escaped outputs for social icons
  • Fixed: Escaped outputs for open graph tools
  • Fixed: Escaped outputs for webmasters tools
  • Fixed: Skype social icon esc_attr instead of esc_url
  • Updated: Genericons
  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.3

1.2

  • Added: Serbo-Croatian translation sr_RS.po and sr_RS.mo
  • Fixed: empty SEO title added when deactivated

1.1

  • Fixed: SEO with title tags for version 4.1 or later

1.0

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 4.1
  • Fixed: Admin css

0.4

  • Checked: Version compatibility WordPress 3.9.2

0.3

  • Added: Brazilian Portuguese translation pt_BR.po and pt_BR.mo
  • Fixed: Textdomain issue with .pot files

0.2

  • Checked: WordPress compatibility up to version 3.9.1

0.1

  • Initial Release

Catch Web Tools