Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Blog-in-Blog
Active installs800+ rounded
Current authortimhodson
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 months ago 26 Jan 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record36
Rating5.0 /5 · 16
Added to directory12 Jun 2009
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by timhodson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| timhodson | 36 | 19 Jun 2009 | 26 Jan 2026 |
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: 800+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 33% 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/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 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (16) · active installs (800+) · version (2.0.1) · 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 directory17 years ago 12 Jun 2009
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Jan 2026, 224 days ago.
- 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 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 06 Feb 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.
- 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.
- 26 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 2.0.1 released
- 26 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 03 Mar 201214 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 08 Oct 201114 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 07 Sep 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 19 Jul 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 19 Jun 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 18 Jun 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 06 Mar 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 26 Feb 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 20 Feb 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 16 Sep 201015 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 16 Sep 201015 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by timhodson.
- 19 Jun 200917 years ago23 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 19 Jun 2009 and 16 Sep 2010. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 12 Jun 200917 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 timhodson for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 months ago (26 Jan 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 800+ active installs.
- It carries 16 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.
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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