Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Abandoned cart SMS reminders and SMS campaigns – CartFox
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorCartFox
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 years ago 09 Aug 2024
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record31
Rating5.0 /5 · 5
Added to directory02 Nov 2022
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag—
Tested up toWP — not declared
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Ownership
Held by CartFox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cartfox | 31 | 02 Nov 2022 | 09 Aug 2024 |
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: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
3 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 11/day31 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 200+ on 30 Aug 2026, from 300+. 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 | 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 | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Active installs | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 200+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 200+ | 200+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · version (4.0.8) · 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 directory3.5 years ago 02 Nov 2022
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag—
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 753 days (2.1 years). The last was 09 Aug 2024.
- Does not declare which WordPress version it has been tested against. A field the author sets themselves, so it is left blank rather than reported wrong.
- CartFox 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.
- 27 Aug 20264 days agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Aug 20265 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202629 days agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 31 Jan 20267 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-08-09). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 09 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 4.0.8 released
- 21 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 4.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 21 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 4.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 15 May 20242 years agoVersion 4.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 12 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 06 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 05 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 06 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 06 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 31 Mar 20233 years agoVersion 3.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 17 Mar 20233 years agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 17 Mar 20233 years agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 16 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 2.9.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cartfox.
- 02 Nov 20223.5 years ago18 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 02 Nov 2022 and 13 Feb 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 02 Nov 20223.5 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 CartFox for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 years ago (09 Aug 2024).
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 5 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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