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Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Backdrop

Sourceswordpress.org listingsupport forumauthor’s site
Active installs20+ rounded
Current authorPhillip.Gooch
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 months ago 25 Feb 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record16
Rating5.0 /5 · 3
Added to directory29 Oct 2012
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Phillip.Gooch 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
Phillip.Gooch1629 Oct 201225 Feb 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.

Very early-stage: 20+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 20/day28 Aug 2026
5.0
out of 5
3 ratings
5★3100%
4★00%
3★00%
2★00%
1★00%

Install band rose to 20+ on 20 Aug 2026, from 10+. 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.

Field15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug
Downloads that day—000011000000020
Active installs10+10+10+10+10+20+20+20+20+20+20+20+20+20+

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · version (2.3.5) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

27 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 29 Oct 2012
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • No release in 549 days (1.5 years). The last was 25 Feb 2025.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
  • The same account maintains 3 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 27 Feb 2025.

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.

  1. 19 Aug 202610 days ago
    Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-02-25). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
  2. 02 Aug 202627 days ago
    Install band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  3. 02 Aug 202627 days ago
    First 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.
  4. 25 Feb 202518 months ago
    Version 2.3.5 released
  5. 02 Jan 20188.5 years ago
    Version 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  6. 22 Nov 20178.5 years ago
    Version 2.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  7. 21 Aug 201610 years ago
    Version 2.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  8. 21 Aug 201511 years ago
    Version 2.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  9. 11 Apr 201511 years ago
    Version 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  10. 10 Apr 201511 years ago
    Version 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  11. 17 Mar 201511 years ago
    Version 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  12. 17 Mar 201511 years ago
    Version 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  13. 02 Jan 201511 years ago
    Version 1.3.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  14. 18 Nov 201411 years ago
    Version 1.3.4 WordPress 4.0 Update releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  15. 18 Nov 201411 years ago
    Version 1.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  16. 02 Aug 201412 years ago
    Version 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Phillip.Gooch.
  17. 29 Oct 201213 years ago
    3 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 29 Oct 2012 and 02 Aug 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  18. 29 Oct 201213 years ago
    Added 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 Phillip.Gooch for all 27 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 18 months ago (25 Feb 2025).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 20+ active installs.
  • It carries 3 ratings, averaging 5.0 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.

What can’t be known

  • Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.

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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