Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Byteplant Email Validator
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorbyteplant
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 days ago 19 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record29
Rating3.8 /5 · 9
Added to directory28 Jan 2016
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.0 up to date
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Ownership
Held by byteplant 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| byteplant | 29 | 02 Mar 2016 | 19 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: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
9 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 48% 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 70/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 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 35 | 70 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Version | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · active installs (100+) · 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 directory10 years ago 28 Jan 2016
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 19 Aug 2026, 9 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.0, which is current.
- The same account maintains 2 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.
- 19 Aug 20269 days agoVersion 6.8 released
- 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.
- 20 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 6.7 released
- 02 Sep 20241.5 years agoVersion 6.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 22 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 04 May 20233 years agoVersion 6.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 09 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 24 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 05 May 20224 years agoVersion 6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 16 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 5.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 19 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 5.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 08 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 10 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 29 Jul 20206 years agoVersion 5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 27 Apr 20206 years agoVersion 5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by byteplant.
- 02 Mar 201610 years ago15 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 02 Mar 2016 and 16 Jan 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 28 Jan 201610 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 byteplant for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 days ago (19 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.0, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 3.8 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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Corrections, missing context, or anything else about Byteplant Email Validator: a person reads every submission, and corrections get a reply within 5 business days.