Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin
Active installs100,000+ rounded
Current authorVinod Dalvi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 days ago 24 Aug 2026
Support2 / 3 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record93
Rating4.9 /5 · 1,560
Added to directory06 Apr 2017
Requires WP3.9
Requires PHP5.2.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Vinod Dalvi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| vinod dalvi | 91 | 14 Apr 2017 | 23 Jun 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.
Very widely adopted: 100,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
1,170 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 87% 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 29,156/day05 Sep 2026
3 ratings left in the last 35 days, averaging 4.7 out of 5. Too few to compare against the lifetime average.
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 | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 261 | 29,156 | 28,498 | 3,006 | 2,526 | 1,660 | 0 | 1,009 | 956 | 2,321 | 1,475 | 1,296 | 1,135 |
| Version | 5.5.16 | 5.5.17 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.18 |
| Support threads | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Threads resolved | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1,560) · active installs (100,000+)
35 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 years ago 06 Apr 2017
Requires WP3.9
Requires PHP5.2.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 24 Aug 2026, 13 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 2 of 3 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 3 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 14 Mar 2021.
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.
- 24 Aug 202613 days agoVersion 5.5.18 released
- 23 Aug 202614 days agoVersion 5.5.17 released
- 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.
- 23 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 5.5.16 released
- 29 May 20263 months agoVersion 5.5.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 22 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 5.5.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 11 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 5.5.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 09 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 5.5.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 19 May 202516 months agoVersion 5.5.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 19 May 202516 months agoVersion 5.5.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 29 Jan 202519 months agoVersion 5.5.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 25 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 5.5.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 02 Sep 20242 years agoVersion 5.5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 13 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 5.5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 19 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 5.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 31 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 5.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vinod dalvi.
- 14 Apr 20179 years ago78 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 14 Apr 2017 and 27 Oct 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 06 Apr 20179 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 Vinod Dalvi for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 days ago (24 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1,560 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
- 2 of 3 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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