Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Clerk
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorclerkio
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 months ago 26 Mar 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record66
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory10 May 2017
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.6 behind
Tested up toWP 6.5.10 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by clerkio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rbech | 2 | 30 Nov 2018 | 30 Nov 2018 |
| clerkio | 64 | 04 Mar 2019 | 26 Mar 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.
7 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 92% 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 13/day13 Sep 2026
Install band rose to 400+ on 13 Sep 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 | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 |
| Active installs | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 400+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · version (4.2.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
43 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 directory9 years ago 10 May 2017
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.6 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Mar 2025, 537 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.5.10, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 6 releases.
- clerkio 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 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 26 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 4.2.1 released
- 26 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 4.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 29 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 4.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 15 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 4.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 30 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 04 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 08 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 30 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 30 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 09 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 4.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 07 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 01 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 03 May 20233 years agoVersion 4.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clerkio.
- 30 Nov 20187.5 years ago53 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Nov 2018 and 25 Apr 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 10 May 20179 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 clerkio for all 43 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 months ago (26 Mar 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.5.10; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, 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.
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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