Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
aThemes Starter Sites
Active installs40,000+ rounded
Current authorSyed Balkhi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release30 days ago 06 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record22
Rating2.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory15 Dec 2020
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Syed Balkhi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| maaprote | 5 | 15 Oct 2024 | 07 Mar 2025 |
| athemes | 10 | 28 Nov 2024 | 23 Apr 2026 |
| mahdiyazdani | 3 | 07 May 2026 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| vladff | 4 | 24 Jun 2026 | 06 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.
Widely adopted: 40,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
398 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 44% 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 5,373/day05 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 | 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 | — | 283 | 218 | 404 | 296 | 357 | 380 | 269 | 234 | 959 | 383 | 314 | 367 | 263 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · active installs (40,000+) · version (1.4.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory5.5 years ago 15 Dec 2020
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 06 Aug 2026, 31 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.
- The same account maintains 97 other plugins, 38 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.
- 06 Aug 202630 days agoVersion 1.4.2 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.
- 22 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.4.1 released
- 16 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vladff.
- 24 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vladff.
- 24 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vladff.
- 04 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mahdiyazdani.
- 07 May 20264 months agoVersion 1.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mahdiyazdani.
- 23 Apr 20264 months agoVersion 1.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 03 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 1.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 25 Feb 20266 months agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 04 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 15 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 24 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 13 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by athemes.
- 15 Oct 202423 months ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 15 Oct 2024 and 12 Aug 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 Dec 20205.5 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 Syed Balkhi for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 30 days ago (06 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 40,000+ active installs.
- It carries 2 ratings, averaging 2.0 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.
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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