Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
AWeber Forms by Optin Cat
Active installs300+ rounded
Current authorfatcatapps
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 days ago 16 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record40
Rating3.7 /5 · 18
Added to directory14 Feb 2015
Requires WP3.9.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by fatcatapps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| davidhme | 26 | 14 Feb 2015 | 29 Jul 2019 |
| fatcatapps | 13 | 02 May 2016 | 06 Mar 2017 |
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: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 42% 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 24/day29 Aug 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 | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (18) · active installs (300+) · version (2.6.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
28 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 directory11 years ago 14 Feb 2015
Requires WP3.9.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 16 Aug 2026, 14 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 10 other plugins, 7 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.
- 16 Aug 202613 days agoVersion 2.6.2 released
- 02 Aug 202627 days 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.
- 29 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 2.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 30 Apr 20197 years agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 11 Dec 20187.5 years agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 24 Sep 20187.5 years agoVersion 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 23 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 24 May 20188 years agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 21 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 04 Jul 20179 years agoVersion 2.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidhme.
- 06 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fatcatapps.
- 17 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fatcatapps.
- 08 Dec 20169.5 years agoVersion 1.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fatcatapps.
- 01 Dec 20169.5 years agoVersion 1.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fatcatapps.
- 14 Feb 201511 years ago27 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 14 Feb 2015 and 10 Oct 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 14 Feb 201511 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 fatcatapps for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 days ago (16 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
- It carries 18 ratings, averaging 3.7 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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