Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Custom Taxonomy Order
Active installs50,000+ rounded
Current authorMarcel Pol
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 months ago 10 Jan 2026
Support1 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record18
Rating4.8 /5 · 96
Added to directory10 Oct 2013
Requires WP4.1
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Marcel Pol 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mpol | 18 | 24 Dec 2019 | 10 Jan 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.
Widely adopted: 50,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
121 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 207/day28 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 | 15 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 76 | 56 | 159 | 0 | 172 | 159 | 119 | 88 | 55 | 89 | 165 | 144 | 187 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (96) · active installs (50,000+) · version (4.0.2) · support threads (2) · threads resolved (1)
27 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 directory12 years ago 10 Oct 2013
Requires WP4.1
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 10 Jan 2026, 231 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- 1 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 17 other plugins, 2 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 202626 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.
- 10 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 4.0.2 released
- 15 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 15 Sep 202423 months agoVersion 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 07 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 3.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 12 May 20224 years agoVersion 3.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 27 Apr 20224 years agoVersion 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 27 Apr 20224 years agoVersion 3.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 14 Mar 20224 years agoVersion 3.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 24 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 23 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 26 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 14 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 04 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mpol.
- 24 Dec 20196.5 years ago5 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 24 Dec 2019 and 26 Nov 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 10 Oct 201312 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 Marcel Pol for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 months ago (10 Jan 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 50,000+ active installs.
- It carries 96 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 1 of 2 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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