Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Custom Metadata Manager
Active installs700+ rounded
Current authorMohammad Jangda
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 days ago 21 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record15
Rating4.4 /5 · 5
Added to directory18 Oct 2010
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Mohammad Jangda 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| batmoo | 3 | 19 Oct 2010 | 10 Jul 2011 |
| jkudish | 10 | 01 Sep 2011 | 16 Jan 2012 |
| stresslimit | 1 | 11 Jul 2012 | 11 Jul 2012 |
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: 700+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
8 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 53% 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 44/day02 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 700+ on 10 Aug 2026, from 800+. 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 | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 17 | 11 | 44 | 12 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Version | 0.7.1 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · active installs (700+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
32 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 18 Oct 2010
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Aug 2026, 13 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 16 Jul 2015.
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.
- 21 Aug 202613 days agoVersion 0.8.0 released
- 21 Aug 202613 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 5,154 days after the previous one (2012-07-11). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 05 Aug 202629 days agoInstall band moved to 800+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Aug 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 800+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.
- 02 Jan 201412 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2012-07-11). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 11 Jul 201214 years agoVersion 0.7.1 released
- 16 Jan 201214 years agoVersion 0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 14 Jan 201214 years agoVersion 0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 08 Dec 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 03 Dec 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 16 Nov 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 24 Oct 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 12 Sep 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 11 Sep 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 04 Sep 201114 years agoVersion 0.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 01 Sep 201115 years agoVersion 0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jkudish.
- 10 Jul 201115 years agoVersion 0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by batmoo.
- 23 Oct 201015 years agoVersion 0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by batmoo.
- 19 Oct 201015 years ago1 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 19 Oct 2010 and 19 Oct 2010. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 18 Oct 201015 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 Mohammad Jangda for all 32 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 days ago (21 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 700+ active installs.
- It carries 5 ratings, averaging 4.4 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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