Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Reviews and Rating – Google Reviews
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authorNoah Hearle
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last releaseyesterday 01 Sep 2026
Support6 / 6 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record142
Rating4.9 /5 · 184
Added to directory29 Jul 2019
Requires WP5.3
Requires PHP7.4
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 Noah Hearle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| designextreme | 140 | 30 Jul 2019 | 31 Jan 2025 |
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.
Widely adopted: 20,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
1,476 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 4373% 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 8,226/day02 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 | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 56 | 23 | 0 | 28 | 33 | 46 | 35 | 136 | 8,226 | 480 | 285 | 416 | 755 |
| Version | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.1 |
| Support threads | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Threads resolved | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (184) · active installs (20,000+)
32 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 directory7 years ago 29 Jul 2019
Requires WP5.3
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 01 Sep 2026, 2 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 6 of 6 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 04 Jan 2026.
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.
- 01 Sep 20262 days agoVersion 6.1 released
- 27 Aug 20267 days agoVersion 6.0 released
- 27 Aug 20267 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 573 days after the previous one (2025-01-31). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 25 Jul 20261 month agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-01-31). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 31 Jan 202519 months agoVersion 5.10 released
- 08 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 5.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 01 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 5.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 23 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 28 Sep 202423 months agoVersion 5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 07 Sep 20241.5 years agoVersion 5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 09 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 24 May 20242 years agoVersion 5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 24 May 20242 years agoVersion 5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 04 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 22 Mar 20242 years agoVersion 5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 14 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.30 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 10 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 4.29 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by designextreme.
- 30 Jul 20197 years ago127 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Jul 2019 and 31 Jan 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 29 Jul 20197 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 Noah Hearle for all 32 days we have observed it.
- It was last released yesterday (01 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 184 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
- 6 of 6 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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