Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Avif Express
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorPijush Gupta
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 months ago 05 Oct 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record19
Rating3.8 /5 · 9
Added to directory17 Jan 2023
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.3
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Pijush Gupta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pijush_Gupta | 19 | 17 Jan 2023 | 05 Oct 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 264% 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 155/day11 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 | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 18 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · active installs (400+) · version (2025.08.29) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
41 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 directory3.5 years ago 17 Jan 2023
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.3
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 05 Oct 2025, 341 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 2 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 03 Nov 2022.
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.
- 05 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 2025.08.29 released
- 12 May 202516 months agoVersion 2025.05.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 12 May 202516 months agoVersion 2025.05.12.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 02 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 2024.08.02 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 22 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2024.06.20.01 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 20 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2024.06.19 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 28 Jun 20233 years agoVersion 2023.06.28 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 11 May 20233 years agoVersion 2023.05.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 11 May 20233 years agoVersion 2023.05.11.02 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 07 May 20233 years agoVersion 2023.05.07 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 20 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 2023.03.20 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 25 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 2023.02.27 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 24 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 2023.02.25 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Pijush_Gupta.
- 17 Jan 20233.5 years ago6 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Jan 2023 and 24 Feb 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 17 Jan 20233.5 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 Pijush Gupta for all 41 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 months ago (05 Oct 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 3.8 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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