Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
BugSnag Error Monitoring plugin
Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorSmartBear
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 months ago 28 Apr 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record17
Rating3.7 /5 · 9
Added to directory19 Dec 2013
Requires WP2.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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 SmartBear 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| loopj | 6 | 19 Dec 2013 | 29 Apr 2020 |
| conradirwin | 2 | 28 Apr 2014 | 05 Sep 2014 |
| bengourley | 1 | 27 Jul 2018 | 27 Jul 2018 |
| tomlongridge | 1 | 02 Jul 2019 | 02 Jul 2019 |
| imjoehaines | 4 | 17 Nov 2020 | 13 Jul 2023 |
| joshedneysb | 2 | 15 Sep 2025 | 30 Sep 2025 |
| sbpawanj | 1 | 28 Apr 2026 | 28 Apr 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.
Moderately adopted: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
60 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 146/day31 Aug 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 | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 84 | 0 | 90 | 97 | 48 | 26 | 56 | 63 | 69 | 96 | 34 | 72 | 33 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · active installs (2,000+) · version (2.0.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
30 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 directory12 years ago 19 Dec 2013
Requires WP2.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Apr 2026, 126 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- SmartBear 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 202629 days 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.
- 28 Apr 20264 months agoVersion 2.0.0 released
- 30 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 1.6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joshedneysb.
- 15 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 1.6.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joshedneysb.
- 13 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 1.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by imjoehaines.
- 26 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by imjoehaines.
- 21 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by imjoehaines.
- 17 Nov 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by imjoehaines.
- 29 Apr 20206 years agoVersion 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by loopj.
- 02 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tomlongridge.
- 27 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bengourley.
- 29 Nov 20169.5 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by loopj.
- 05 Sep 201411 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by conradirwin.
- 28 Apr 201412 years agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by conradirwin.
- 19 Dec 201312 years ago4 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 19 Dec 2013 and 08 Mar 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 19 Dec 201312 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 SmartBear for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 months ago (28 Apr 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 3.7 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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