Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorJeff Starr
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 17 Jul 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record32
Rating4.5 /5 · 13
Added to directory22 Feb 2011
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHP5.6.20
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Jeff Starr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| specialk | 32 | 20 May 2017 | 17 Jul 2026 |
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.
6 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
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 | — | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (13) · active installs (200+) · version (20260417) · 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 directory15 years ago 22 Feb 2011
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHP5.6.20
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 17 Jul 2026, 45 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 29 other plugins, 29 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 17 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 20260417 released
- 26 Mar 20265 months agoVersion 20260123 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 11 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 20251111 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 17 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 20250317 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 02 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 20241102 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 02 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 20241002 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 17 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 20240617 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 27 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 20240226 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 19 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 20231019 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 08 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 20230708 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 25 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 20230225 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 25 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 20220924 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 23 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 20220923 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by specialk.
- 20 May 20179 years ago19 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 20 May 2017 and 15 May 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Feb 201115 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 Jeff Starr for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (17 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 13 ratings, averaging 4.5 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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