Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress
Active installs200,000+ rounded
Current authorSyed Balkhi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 days ago 28 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record170
Rating4.7 /5 · 1,508
Added to directory08 Jun 2013
Requires WP4.1
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Syed Balkhi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| smashballoon | 142 | 08 Jun 2013 | 08 Dec 2021 |
| Craig at Smash Balloon | 12 | 24 Jan 2022 | 05 Nov 2024 |
| nabilsmashballoon | 8 | 02 Jan 2024 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| AhmedGeek | 6 | 23 Apr 2025 | 22 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.
Very widely adopted: 200,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
2,025 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 39% 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 74,696/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 | — | 3,030 | 4,399 | 3,436 | 2,973 | 3,897 | 1,481 | 1,494 | 1,353 | 2,168 | 3,661 | 2,056 | 1,960 | 1,485 |
| Ratings total | 1,507 | 1,507 | 1,507 | 1,507 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 | 1,508 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (200,000+) · version (4.12.0) · 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 directory13 years ago 08 Jun 2013
Requires WP4.1
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Aug 2026, 8 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 97 other plugins, 38 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.
- 28 Aug 20268 days agoVersion 4.12.0 released
- 10 Aug 202626 days agoVersion 4.10.0 released
- 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.
- 22 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 4.9.0 released
- 10 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by AhmedGeek.
- 14 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.7.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by AhmedGeek.
- 12 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 4.7.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by AhmedGeek.
- 19 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 4.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nabilsmashballoon.
- 11 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 4.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nabilsmashballoon.
- 09 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 4.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nabilsmashballoon.
- 02 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 4.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nabilsmashballoon.
- 21 May 202516 months agoVersion 4.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by AhmedGeek.
- 23 Apr 202516 months agoVersion 4.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by AhmedGeek.
- 19 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 4.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nabilsmashballoon.
- 05 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 4.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Craig at Smash Balloon.
- 08 May 20242 years agoVersion 4.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Craig at Smash Balloon.
- 08 Jun 201313 years ago155 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 08 Jun 2013 and 03 Apr 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 08 Jun 201313 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 Syed Balkhi for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 days ago (28 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 200,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1,508 ratings, averaging 4.7 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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