Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Floating Social Share Icons and Social Share buttons – Next Previous Post Links – FL
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorJWebSol
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 months ago 21 Jan 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating4.7 /5 · 73
Added to directory02 Sep 2016
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by JWebSol 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jwebsol | 13 | 13 Nov 2016 | 16 Jul 2018 |
| DaNish Ali | 16 | 27 Dec 2018 | 21 Jan 2026 |
| maltathemes | 4 | 15 Dec 2019 | 25 Sep 2021 |
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: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 58% 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 37/day05 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 | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 27 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 37 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (73) · active installs (200+) · version (3.6.7) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
35 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 02 Sep 2016
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Jan 2026, 227 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- JWebSol 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.
- 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.
- 21 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 3.6.7 released
- 04 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 3.6.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 27 Jun 202514 months agoVersion 3.6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 14 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 3.6.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 26 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 3.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 19 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 3.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 02 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 21 Apr 20224 years agoVersion 3.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 25 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 3.5.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by maltathemes.
- 16 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion 3.5.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by maltathemes.
- 08 Oct 20205.5 years agoVersion 3.5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by maltathemes.
- 06 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 3.5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 04 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 3.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaNish Ali.
- 13 Nov 20169.5 years ago20 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Nov 2016 and 24 Feb 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 02 Sep 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 JWebSol for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 months ago (21 Jan 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 73 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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