Plugin profile · observed daily since 03 Aug 2026
Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter
Active installs70,000+ rounded
Current authorwpdreams
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 days ago 21 Aug 2026
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record95
Rating4.8 /5 · 264
Added to directory17 Nov 2012
Requires WP3.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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 wpdreams throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| wpdreams | 95 | 09 Jan 2014 | 30 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 70,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
407 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 19% 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 3,283/day07 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 70,000+ on 24 Aug 2026, from 80,000+. 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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 676 | 704 | 722 | 0 | 445 | 311 | 827 | 0 | 574 | 482 | 441 | 320 | 206 |
| Support threads | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Threads resolved | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (264) · active installs (70,000+) · version (4.14.5)
36 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 directory13 years ago 17 Nov 2012
Requires WP3.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Aug 2026, 18 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- wpdreams 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 03 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.
- 21 Aug 202618 days agoVersion 4.14.5 released
- 03 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 80,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 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.
- 16 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.14.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 01 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.14.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 23 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.14.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 13 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.14.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 12 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.14.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 16 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 4.13.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 05 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 4.13.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 25 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 4.13.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 25 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 4.13.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 10 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 4.13.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 27 Jun 202514 months agoVersion 4.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 15 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 4.12.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdreams.
- 09 Jan 201412 years ago82 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 09 Jan 2014 and 27 Jan 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 17 Nov 201213 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 wpdreams for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 days ago (21 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 70,000+ active installs.
- It carries 264 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 0 of 1 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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