Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
bbPress
Active installs100,000+ rounded
Current authorJohn James Jacoby
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 days ago 03 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record70
Rating3.9 /5 · 342
Added to directory13 Jan 2010
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP5.6.20
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by John James Jacoby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| johnjamesjacoby | 67 | 21 May 2011 | 02 Jul 2025 |
| netweb | 2 | 10 Jan 2016 | 16 Jan 2018 |
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 widely adopted: 100,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
6,016 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 1435% 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 34,998/day07 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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 488 | 614 | 416 | 436 | 345 | 0 | 357 | 470 | 563 | 1,021 | 34,998 | 0 | 4,703 |
| Version | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.14 | 2.6.15 | 2.6.15 | 2.6.15 | 2.6.15 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (342) · active installs (100,000+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
37 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 directory16 years ago 13 Jan 2010
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP5.6.20
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Sep 2026, 5 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 28 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 31 Mar 2026.
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.
- 03 Sep 20265 days agoVersion 2.6.15 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.
- 02 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 2.6.14 released
- 16 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 2.6.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 26 Feb 202518 months agoVersion 2.6.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 29 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2.6.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 29 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2.6.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 19 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 2.6.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 19 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 2.6.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 17 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 2.6.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 03 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 2.6.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 16 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 2.6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 30 Jan 20206.5 years agoVersion 2.6.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 11 Dec 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 22 Nov 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by johnjamesjacoby.
- 21 May 201115 years ago56 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 21 May 2011 and 15 Nov 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Jan 201016 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 John James Jacoby for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 days ago (03 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100,000+ active installs.
- It carries 342 ratings, averaging 3.9 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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