Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Advanced Post Manager
Active installs4,000+ rounded
Current authorNexcess
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 months ago 26 Aug 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record27
Rating3.5 /5 · 11
Added to directory06 Sep 2011
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Nexcess 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mattwiebe | 8 | 06 Sep 2011 | 23 Jan 2012 |
| nickciske | 2 | 20 Mar 2012 | 20 Aug 2013 |
| zbtirrell | 5 | 06 Jul 2015 | 27 May 2020 |
| barry.hughes | 3 | 29 Feb 2016 | 19 Oct 2016 |
| borkweb | 5 | 15 Mar 2016 | 05 Aug 2022 |
| brianjessee | 1 | 22 Jun 2016 | 22 Jun 2016 |
| lucatume | 1 | 06 Jul 2016 | 06 Jul 2016 |
| bordoni | 1 | 11 Jul 2024 | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Camwynsp | 1 | 26 Aug 2025 | 26 Aug 2025 |
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.
Moderately adopted: 4,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
16 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 37% 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 37/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 | — | 23 | 23 | 37 | 22 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 22 | 23 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (11) · active installs (4,000+) · version (4.5.5) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory14 years ago 06 Sep 2011
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Aug 2025, 375 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- The same account maintains 22 other plugins, 12 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 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.
- 26 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 4.5.5 released
- 11 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 4.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bordoni.
- 05 Aug 20224 years agoVersion 4.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by borkweb.
- 14 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 4.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by borkweb.
- 03 Dec 20214.5 years agoVersion 4.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by borkweb.
- 27 May 20206 years agoVersion 4.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by zbtirrell.
- 18 Dec 20187.5 years agoVersion 4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by zbtirrell.
- 19 Oct 20169.5 years agoVersion 4.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by barry.hughes.
- 13 Oct 20169.5 years agoVersion 4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by borkweb.
- 06 Jul 201610 years agoVersion 4.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lucatume.
- 22 Jun 201610 years agoVersion 4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjessee.
- 18 May 201610 years agoVersion 4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by barry.hughes.
- 15 Mar 201610 years agoVersion 4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by borkweb.
- 06 Sep 201114 years ago14 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Sep 2011 and 29 Feb 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 06 Sep 201114 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 Nexcess for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 months ago (26 Aug 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 4,000+ active installs.
- It carries 11 ratings, averaging 3.5 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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