Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Defender Security – Malware Scanner, Login Security & Firewall
Active installs80,000+ rounded
Current authorWPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release14 days ago 24 Aug 2026
Support4 / 4 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record135
Rating4.8 /5 · 334
Added to directory07 Jun 2017
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP8.0.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jdailey | 9 | 06 Jun 2017 | 16 Oct 2019 |
| hoang1213 | 11 | 08 Jun 2017 | 28 Jul 2020 |
| WPMUDEV | 1 | 03 Jul 2017 | 03 Jul 2017 |
| paulkevini | 2 | 11 Jul 2017 | 17 Aug 2017 |
| BigTonny | 102 | 03 Feb 2020 | 28 Jul 2026 |
| rickjc89 | 3 | 01 Sep 2020 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| vanyukov | 1 | 11 Mar 2021 | 11 Mar 2021 |
| gvgvgvijayan | 4 | 25 Apr 2022 | 09 Aug 2023 |
| panoslyrakis | 1 | 06 Dec 2023 | 06 Dec 2023 |
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: 80,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
951 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 83% 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 28,190/day07 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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 28,190 | 3,618 | 2,784 | 2,302 | 0 | 1,827 | 1,625 | 1,265 | 0 | 1,424 | 1,246 | 651 | 445 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (334) · active installs (80,000+) · version (6.2.2) · support threads (4) · threads resolved (4)
37 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 directory9 years ago 07 Jun 2017
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP8.0.0
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 24 Aug 2026, 14 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 4 of 4 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, 7 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.
- 24 Aug 202614 days agoVersion 6.2.2 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.
- 28 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 6.1.0 released
- 21 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 6.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 13 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 6.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 07 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 5.11.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 03 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 5.10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 02 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 5.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 12 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 5.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 12 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 5.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 15 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 5.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 24 Nov 20259 months agoVersion 5.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 24 Nov 20259 months agoVersion 5.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 20 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 5.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 22 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 5.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BigTonny.
- 07 Jun 20179 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
- 06 Jun 20179 years ago121 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Jun 2017 and 13 Oct 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
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 WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 14 days ago (24 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 80,000+ active installs.
- It carries 334 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 4 of 4 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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