Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Bottle
Active installs80+ rounded
Current authorbenrowland
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 days ago 03 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record19
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory13 Mar 2026
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by benrowland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| benrowland | 17 | 13 Mar 2026 | 14 Aug 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.
Very early-stage: 80+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 68% 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 127/day15 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 80+ on 12 Sep 2026, from 70+. 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.
| Field | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep | 14 Sep | 15 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 127 | 45 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 25 |
| Active installs | 90+ | 90+ | 80+ | 80+ | 70+ | 70+ | 80+ | 70+ | 80+ | 70+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ |
| Version | 0.3.8 | 0.4.1 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
45 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 directory6 months ago 13 Mar 2026
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Sep 2026, 12 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- benrowland 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.
- 11 Sep 20265 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Sep 20266 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Sep 20267 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Sep 20268 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Sep 202610 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Sep 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Sep 202613 days agoVersion 0.4.2 released
- 02 Sep 202614 days agoVersion 0.4.1 released
- 30 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Aug 202624 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Aug 202625 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 0.3.8 released
- 12 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 07 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 0.3.7 released
- 07 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 23 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 0.3.6 released
- 22 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 0.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 21 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 0.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 13 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 0.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 02 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 0.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 30 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 0.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 29 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 0.2.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 29 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 0.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 25 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 0.2.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 29 May 20264 months agoVersion 0.2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 30 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 0.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 30 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 0.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 27 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 0.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by benrowland.
- 13 Mar 20266 months ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Mar 2026 and 20 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Mar 20266 months 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 benrowland for all 45 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 days ago (03 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 80+ 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.
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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