Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Authorsy – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Post Rating
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorApselo
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 30 Jun 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory21 Feb 2024
Requires WP5.2
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 Apselo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| themeplugs | 8 | 04 Mar 2024 | 25 Dec 2025 |
| apselo | 1 | 30 Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 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.
Moderately adopted: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
14 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 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 34/day05 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | — | 0 | 11 | 22 | 27 | 12 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (1,000+) · version (1.0.8) · 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 directory2.5 years ago 21 Feb 2024
Requires WP5.2
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 30 Jun 2026, 67 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 3 other plugins, 3 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.
- 30 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.8 released
- 25 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 1.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 10 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 1.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 02 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 1.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 12 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 1.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 08 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 17 Sep 20241.5 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 06 May 20242 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 04 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeplugs.
- 21 Feb 20242.5 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 Apselo for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (30 Jun 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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