Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Call Now Button – The #1 Click to Call Button for WordPress
Active installs200,000+ rounded
Current authorJerry Rietveld
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 29 May 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record83
Rating4.8 /5 · 102
Added to directory30 Sep 2012
Requires WP6.1
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Jerry Rietveld 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jgrietveld | 17 | 13 Jul 2013 | 04 Jun 2021 |
| jasperroel | 66 | 06 Sep 2021 | 29 May 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 widely adopted: 200,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
624 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 1,410/day28 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 | 15 Aug | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 549 | 447 | 678 | 688 | 0 | 1,410 | 0 | 703 | 572 | 509 | 705 | 595 | 1,287 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (102) · active installs (200,000+) · version (2.0.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
27 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 directory13 years ago 30 Sep 2012
Requires WP6.1
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 29 May 2026, 92 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- Jerry Rietveld 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 202627 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.
- 29 May 20263 months agoVersion 2.0.2 released
- 20 Mar 20265 months agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 06 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 16 Oct 202510 months agoVersion 1.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 13 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 1.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 27 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 1.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 20 May 202515 months agoVersion 1.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 28 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 28 Feb 202518 months agoVersion 1.4.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 14 Feb 202518 months agoVersion 1.4.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 04 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 1.4.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 29 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 1.4.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 29 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 1.4.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jasperroel.
- 13 Jul 201313 years ago70 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Jul 2013 and 09 Sep 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 30 Sep 201213 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 Jerry Rietveld for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (29 May 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200,000+ active installs.
- It carries 102 ratings, averaging 4.8 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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