Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Block Navigation
Active installs3,000+ rounded
Current authorAlvaro
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 years ago 19 May 2022
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record22
Rating5.0 /5 · 33
Added to directory01 Nov 2018
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.1
Version lag1.1 behind
Tested up toWP 6.0.14 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Alvaro 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| melonpan | 22 | 01 Nov 2018 | 19 May 2022 |
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.
Moderately adopted: 3,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
6 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 22/day06 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 | 24 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (33) · active installs (3,000+) · version (4.1.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
36 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 directory7.5 years ago 01 Nov 2018
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.1
Version lag1.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,572 days (4.3 years). The last was 19 May 2022.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.0.14, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 11 releases.
- The same account maintains 10 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 08 May 2021.
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.
- 10 Nov 20232.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2022-05-19). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 19 May 20224 years agoVersion 4.1.1 released
- 25 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 18 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 08 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 20 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 10 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 3.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 08 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 11 Jan 20215.5 years agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 02 Jan 20215.5 years agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 31 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 07 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 27 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 02 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by melonpan.
- 01 Nov 20187.5 years ago9 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 01 Nov 2018 and 16 Mar 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 01 Nov 20187.5 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 Alvaro for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 years ago (19 May 2022).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.0.14; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs.
- It carries 33 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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