Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
SMS Abandoned Cart Recovery ✦ CartBoss
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorCartBoss
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 months ago 05 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating4.9 /5 · 29
Added to directory28 May 2021
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 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 CartBoss 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cartboss | 9 | 28 May 2021 | 05 Dec 2025 |
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: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 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 12/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 | — | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (29) · active installs (400+) · version (4.2.1) · 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 directory5 years ago 28 May 2021
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 05 Dec 2025, 269 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- CartBoss 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.
- 05 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 4.2.1 released
- 12 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 12 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 07 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 17 Jun 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 07 Jun 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 07 Jun 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 28 May 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 28 May 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartboss.
- 28 May 20215 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 CartBoss for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 months ago (05 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 29 ratings, averaging 4.9 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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