Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Big Cartel WordPress Plugin
Active installs10+ rounded
Current authorunknown
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 years ago 30 Mar 2010
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory25 Nov 2009
Requires WP2.0.2
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.2 behind
Tested up toWP 2.9.2 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by unknown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| lmon | 9 | 30 Nov 2009 | 30 Mar 2010 |
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: 10+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
0 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 100% 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 11/day11 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 | 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 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (10+) · version (0.010) · 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 directory16 years ago 25 Nov 2009
Requires WP2.0.2
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 6,009 days (16.5 years). The last was 30 Mar 2010.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 2.9.2, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 42 releases.
- unknown publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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.
- 21 Sep 201114 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2010-03-30). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 30 Mar 201016 years agoVersion 0.010 released
- 16 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 0.009 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 15 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 0.008 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 14 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 0.006 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 14 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 0.007 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 04 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 0.005 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 11 Dec 200916 years agoVersion 0.004 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 01 Dec 200916 years agoVersion 0.003 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 30 Nov 200916 years agoVersion 0.002 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lmon.
- 25 Nov 200916 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 unknown for all 41 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 16 years ago (30 Mar 2010).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 2.9.2; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 10+ 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.
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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