Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Custom Columns
Active installs20+ rounded
Current authorFlorian Palme
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 years ago 30 Mar 2014
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record4
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory02 Jul 2012
Requires WP3.8.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.4 behind
Tested up toWP 3.7.41 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Florian Palme 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| fpalme | 4 | 13 Jul 2012 | 20 Apr 2014 |
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.
Very early-stage: 20+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 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/day13 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 20+ on 11 Sep 2026, from 30+. 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 | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Active installs | 20+ | 20+ | 30+ | 20+ | 20+ | 20+ | 30+ | 20+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 20+ | 20+ | 20+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · version (1.0) · 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 directory14 years ago 02 Jul 2012
Requires WP3.8.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 4,551 days (12.5 years). The last was 30 Mar 2014.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 3.7.41, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 34 releases.
- Florian Palme 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.
- 08 Sep 20266 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 07 Sep 20267 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Sep 20268 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Sep 202611 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Sep 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 30 Aug 202615 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 28 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 15 Aug 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 20+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.
- 21 Sep 201510 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2014-03-30). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 20 Apr 201412 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fpalme.
- 30 Mar 201412 years agoVersion 1.0 released
- 13 Jul 201214 years agoVersion 0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fpalme.
- 13 Jul 201214 years agoVersion 0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fpalme.
- 02 Jul 201214 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 Florian Palme for all 43 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 years ago (30 Mar 2014).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 3.7.41; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 20+ 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.
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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