Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Constant Contact WordPress Widget
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorZack Katz
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 years ago 13 Dec 2012
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record12
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory02 Aug 2008
Requires WP2.8
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.6 behind
Tested up toWP 3.5.2 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Zack Katz 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| katzwebdesign | 11 | 22 Dec 2008 | 09 Dec 2010 |
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, falling 33% 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/day29 Aug 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 200+ on 13 Aug 2026, from 100+. 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 | 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 | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (200+) · version (2.0.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
28 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 directory18 years ago 02 Aug 2008
Requires WP2.8
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.6 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 5,007 days (13.7 years). The last was 13 Dec 2012.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 3.5.2, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 36 releases.
- The same account maintains 23 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 16 Mar 2021.
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.
- 10 Aug 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Aug 202621 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Aug 202622 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202628 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.
- 06 Jun 201412 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2012-12-13). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 13 Dec 201213 years agoVersion 2.0.3 released
- 09 Dec 201015 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 09 Dec 201015 years agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 07 Dec 201015 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 06 Mar 201016 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 17 Feb 201016 years agoVersion .162 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 13 Oct 200916 years agoVersion .11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 13 Oct 200916 years agoVersion .12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 13 Oct 200916 years agoVersion .16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 01 Jul 200917 years agoVersion .155 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 12 Feb 200917 years agoVersion .14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 22 Dec 200817 years agoVersion .13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by katzwebdesign.
- 02 Aug 200818 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 Zack Katz for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 years ago (13 Dec 2012).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 3.5.2; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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