Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Gossiped Comments
Active installs90+ rounded
Current authorgossiped
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 22 May 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory21 Dec 2025
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP8.3
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by gossiped throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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: 90+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 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 12/day30 Aug 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 90+ on 23 Aug 2026, from 80+. 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 | 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 | 30 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Active installs | 80+ | 80+ | 90+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ | 90+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · version (1.2.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
29 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 directory8 months ago 21 Dec 2025
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP8.3
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 22 May 2026, 101 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- gossiped 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.
- 20 Aug 202611 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 202621 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Aug 202622 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 202625 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202629 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202629 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 May 20263 months agoVersion 1.2.1 released
- 21 Dec 20258 months 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 gossiped for all 29 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (22 May 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 90+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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