Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support]
Active installs1,000,000+ rounded
Current authorWPDeveloper
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 days ago 01 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record49
Rating4.7 /5 · 280
Added to directory27 May 2011
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by WPDeveloper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| solarissmoke | 10 | 23 Aug 2014 | 01 May 2020 |
| Asif2BD | 6 | 19 Aug 2020 | 08 Feb 2021 |
| wpdevteam | 27 | 06 Apr 2021 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| priyomukul | 5 | 13 Nov 2023 | 14 May 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: 1,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
79,536 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 380% 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 425,921/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 | — | 19,119 | 24,150 | 26,862 | 18,051 | 7,762 | 8,587 | 15,997 | 10,523 | 425,921 | 51,290 | 27,812 | 15,057 | 10,153 |
| Version | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.8.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (280) · active installs (1,000,000+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory15 years ago 27 May 2011
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 01 Sep 2026, 7 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- The same account maintains 46 other plugins, 33 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.
- 01 Sep 20266 days agoVersion 2.9.0 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.
- 30 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 2.8.0 released
- 22 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 14 May 20264 months agoVersion 2.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by priyomukul.
- 20 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 2.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 02 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 2.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 05 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 2.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 14 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 2.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 20 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 15 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 15 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpdevteam.
- 17 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 2.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by priyomukul.
- 14 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 2.4.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by priyomukul.
- 28 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by priyomukul.
- 23 Aug 201412 years ago35 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 23 Aug 2014 and 13 Nov 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 May 201115 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 WPDeveloper for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 days ago (01 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000,000+ active installs.
- It carries 280 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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