Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Embed Chessboard
Active installs600+ rounded
Current authorpgn4web
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 22 Jul 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record112
Rating4.0 /5 · 3
Added to directory29 Jan 2010
Requires WP2.9
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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 pgn4web 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pgn4web | 112 | 18 Feb 2010 | 22 Jul 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: 600+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 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 13/day28 Aug 2026
Install band rose to 600+ on 11 Aug 2026, from 500+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
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 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (600+) · version (3.09.00) · 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 29 Jan 2010
Requires WP2.9
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 22 Jul 2026, 37 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- pgn4web publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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.
- 10 Aug 202618 days agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 22 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 3.09.00 released
- 24 Feb 20266 months agoVersion 3.08.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 25 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 3.06.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 25 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 3.07.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 09 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.05.03 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 01 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.05.02 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 28 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 3.05.01 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 18 Nov 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.05.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 02 Apr 20206 years agoVersion 3.04.02 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 15 Aug 20197 years agoVersion 3.04.01 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 21 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 3.04.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 28 Apr 20197 years agoVersion 3.03.04 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 06 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 3.03.00 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pgn4web.
- 18 Feb 201016 years ago99 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 18 Feb 2010 and 20 Dec 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 29 Jan 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 pgn4web for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (22 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 600+ active installs.
- It carries 3 ratings, averaging 4.0 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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