Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Checkfront Online Booking System
Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorcheckfront
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2.5 years ago 09 Nov 2023
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating4.1 /5 · 12
Added to directory05 Nov 2009
Requires WP2.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.7 behind
Tested up toWP 6.4.10 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by checkfront throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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.
9 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 35/day05 Sep 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 | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (12) · active installs (2,000+) · version (3.7) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
35 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 directory16 years ago 05 Nov 2009
Requires WP2.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.7 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,031 days (2.8 years). The last was 09 Nov 2023.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.4.10, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 7 releases.
- checkfront 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.
- 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.
- 02 May 202516 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2023-11-09). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 09 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 3.7 released
- 05 Nov 200916 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 checkfront for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2.5 years ago (09 Nov 2023).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.4.10; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 12 ratings, averaging 4.1 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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