Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Dotdigital for WordPress
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorDotdigital
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 days ago 21 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record41
Rating3.7 /5 · 3
Added to directory16 Aug 2010
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
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 Dotdigital 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dotMailer | 40 | 24 Jul 2012 | 10 Aug 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
37 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 1082% 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 110/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 | — | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 110 | 22 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 33 |
| Version | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (400+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory16 years ago 16 Aug 2010
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Aug 2026, 8 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 1 other plugin, 1 of which was 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.
- 21 Aug 20268 days agoVersion 7.5.0 released
- 10 Aug 202619 days agoVersion 7.4.0 released
- 02 Aug 202627 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.
- 30 Jul 202513 months agoVersion 7.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 28 Jul 202513 months agoVersion 7.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 09 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 7.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 19 Jun 202514 months agoVersion 7.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 14 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 7.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 11 Sep 20241.5 years agoVersion 7.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 02 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 7.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 07 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 7.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 24 May 20242 years agoVersion 7.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 05 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 7.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 27 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 7.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 09 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 7.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dotMailer.
- 24 Jul 201214 years ago27 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 24 Jul 2012 and 28 Nov 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 16 Aug 201016 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 Dotdigital for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 days ago (21 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 3 ratings, averaging 3.7 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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Reach out about this record
Corrections, missing context, or anything else about Dotdigital for WordPress: a person reads every submission, and corrections get a reply within 5 business days.