Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Affiliate Link Plugin from BlashO

Name: Affiliate Link Plugin from BlashO
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Author: Ven Tesh

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs10+ rounded

Current authorVen Tesh

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release8.5 years ago 15 Jan 2018

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record10

Rating3.0 /5 · 4

Added to directory11 Aug 2012

Requires WP3.0

Requires PHP5.2.4

Version lag2.2 behind

Tested up toWP 4.9.31 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Ven Tesh 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
ven4online	10	19 Aug 2012	15 Jan 2018

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 early-stage: 10+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

4 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 13/day16 Sep 2026

3.0

out of 5
4 ratings

5★2

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★2

Opinion is split: 50% rate it five stars and 50% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

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	03 Sep	04 Sep	05 Sep	06 Sep	07 Sep	08 Sep	09 Sep	10 Sep	11 Sep	12 Sep	13 Sep	14 Sep	15 Sep	16 Sep
Downloads that day	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	13	0

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · active installs (10+) · version (2.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

46 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 11 Aug 2012

Requires WP3.0

Requires PHP5.2.4

Version lag2.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

No release in 3,166 days (8.7 years). The last was 15 Jan 2018.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 4.9.31, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 22 releases.
The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 15 Jan 2018.

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 ago
First 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.
09 Jul 20197 years ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2018-01-15). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
15 Jan 20188.5 years ago
Version 2.2 released
23 Oct 20178.5 years ago
Version 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
10 Oct 20178.5 years ago
Version 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
10 Jul 201610 years ago
Version 1.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
04 Aug 201511 years ago
Version 1.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
26 Jul 201511 years ago
Version 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
20 Aug 201412 years ago
Version 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
09 Sep 201313 years ago
Version 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
16 Aug 201313 years ago
Version 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
19 Aug 201214 years ago
Version 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ven4online.
11 Aug 201214 years ago
Added 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 Ven Tesh for all 46 days we have observed it.
It was last released 8.5 years ago (15 Jan 2018).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.9.31; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 10+ active installs.
It carries 4 ratings, averaging 3.0 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.

What can’t be known

Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.

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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