Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
EventON – Events Calendar
Active installs6,000+ rounded
Current authorAshan Perera
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 days ago 03 Sep 2026
Support1 / 4 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record57
Rating4.1 /5 · 44
Added to directory22 Jan 2022
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Ashan Perera 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ashanjay | 55 | 22 Jan 2022 | 28 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.
Moderately adopted: 6,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
546 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 305% 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 2,800/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 | — | 207 | 122 | 0 | 144 | 212 | 82 | 200 | 130 | 192 | 174 | 2,800 | 178 | 148 |
| Ratings total | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 45 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
| Version | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.7 | 2.5.7 | 2.5.7 | 2.5.7 |
| Support threads | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (6,000+) · threads resolved (1)
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 directory4.5 years ago 22 Jan 2022
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Sep 2026, 4 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 1 of 4 support threads answered in the last two months.
- Ashan Perera 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.
- 03 Sep 20264 days agoVersion 2.5.7 released
- 14 Aug 202624 days agoVersion 2.5.6 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 May 20263 months agoVersion 2.5.5 released
- 18 May 20264 months agoVersion 2.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 17 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 06 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 18 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 03 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 15 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 2.4.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 15 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 2.4.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 22 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 2.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 28 May 202515 months agoVersion 2.4.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 19 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 08 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 05 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ashanjay.
- 22 Jan 20224.5 years ago42 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Jan 2022 and 02 May 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Jan 20224.5 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 Ashan Perera for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 days ago (03 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 6,000+ active installs.
- It carries 44 ratings, averaging 4.1 out of 5.
- 1 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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