Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense
Active installs100,000+ rounded
Current authormonetizemore
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 03 Aug 2026
Support8 / 10 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record347
Rating4.9 /5 · 1,462
Added to directory23 Jun 2014
Requires WP5.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by monetizemore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| webzunft | 214 | 06 Aug 2014 | 08 Sep 2023 |
| advancedads | 133 | 06 Apr 2020 | 03 Aug 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.
779 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 4,421/day04 Sep 2026
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 | 22 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 841 | 668 | 576 | 913 | 865 | 1,179 | 1,011 | 607 | 566 | 542 | 1,107 | 875 | 745 |
| Ratings total | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,461 | 1,462 | 1,462 |
| Support threads | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Threads resolved | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (100,000+) · version (2.0.26)
34 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 directory12 years ago 23 Jun 2014
Requires WP5.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Aug 2026, 33 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- 8 of 10 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 27 Apr 2026.
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.
- 03 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.26 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.
- 10 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.25 released
- 06 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.24 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 29 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.23 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 08 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 2.0.22 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 27 Apr 20264 months agoVersion 2.0.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 20 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.0.20 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 09 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.0.19 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 26 Mar 20265 months agoVersion 2.0.18 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 03 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 2.0.17 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 30 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 2.0.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 25 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 2.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 18 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 2.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 20 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 2.0.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by advancedads.
- 06 Aug 201412 years ago333 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Aug 2014 and 23 Sep 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 23 Jun 201412 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 monetizemore for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (03 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1,462 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
- 8 of 10 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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