Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
what3words Address Field
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorwhat3words
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 months ago 06 Jan 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record38
Rating4.0 /5 · 4
Added to directory09 Feb 2017
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by what3words throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| what3words | 38 | 13 Mar 2017 | 06 Jan 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Small but established: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 29% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
08 Aug 2026peak 23/day14 Sep 2026
Install band rose to 200+ on 14 Sep 2026, from 100+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep | 14 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Active installs | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 100+ | 100+ | 200+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · version (4.0.19) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
44 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory9.5 years ago 09 Feb 2017
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 06 Jan 2026, 252 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- what3words publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 12 Sep 20263 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 06 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 4.0.19 released
- 20 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 4.0.18 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 07 Jul 202514 months agoVersion release-4.0.17 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 10 Feb 202519 months agoVersion release-4.0.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 23 Sep 20241.5 years agoVersion release-4.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 04 Sep 20242 years agoVersion release-4.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 30 Aug 20242 years agoVersion release-4.0.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 11 Jul 20242 years agoVersion release-4.0.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 16 May 20242 years agoVersion release-4.0.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 08 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion release-4.0.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 13 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion release-4.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 04 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion release-4.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 02 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion release-4.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by what3words.
- 13 Mar 20179.5 years ago25 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Mar 2017 and 22 May 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 09 Feb 20179.5 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by what3words for all 44 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 months ago (06 Jan 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 4 ratings, averaging 4.0 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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