Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorSimon Prosser
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 years ago 12 Jul 2010
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record17
Rating3.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory25 Sep 2008
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.1 behind
Tested up toWP 3.0.5 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Simon Prosser 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pross | 17 | 22 Nov 2008 | 12 Jul 2010 |
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.
Very early-stage: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
3 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 11/day29 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 | 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 | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · active installs (0+) · version (2.0.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
28 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 directory17 years ago 25 Sep 2008
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 5,892 days (16.1 years). The last was 12 Jul 2010.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 3.0.5, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 41 releases.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 10 Oct 2024.
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 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.
- 03 Jan 201214 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2010-07-12). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 12 Jul 201016 years agoVersion 2.0.3 released
- 08 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 31 Dec 200916 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 15 Nov 200916 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 06 Oct 200916 years agoVersion 1.9-pre releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 26 Feb 200917 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 13 Feb 200917 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 11 Feb 200917 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 27 Jan 200917 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 04 Jan 200917 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 27 Dec 200817 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 27 Dec 200817 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 28 Nov 200817 years agoVersion 0.9.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pross.
- 22 Nov 200817 years ago4 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Nov 2008 and 28 Nov 2008. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 25 Sep 200817 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 Simon Prosser for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 16 years ago (12 Jul 2010).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 3.0.5; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
- It carries 2 ratings, averaging 3.0 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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