Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
GR Widget – Google Reviews Widget
Active installs300+ rounded
Current authorGR Widget
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 28 Aug 2026
Support2 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record7
Rating5.0 /5 · 8
Added to directory11 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.0
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 GR Widget 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grwidget | 7 | 11 Jul 2026 | 28 Aug 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.
Small but established: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
25 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 47% 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 118/day07 Sep 2026
5 ratings left in the last 37 days, averaging 5.0 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 5.0. Recent ratings are in line with the lifetime figure.
Install band rose to 300+ on 31 Aug 2026, from 200+. 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 | 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 | — | 35 | 36 | 23 | 51 | 114 | 33 | 23 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 27 | 22 |
| Active installs | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ |
| Version | 1.1.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (8) · support threads (2) · threads resolved (2)
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 directory2 months ago 11 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Aug 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 2 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- GR Widget 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.
- 28 Aug 202611 days agoVersion 1.1.2 released
- 22 Aug 202617 days agoVersion 1.1.1 released
- 21 Aug 202618 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 202620 days agoVersion 1.1.0 released
- 09 Aug 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.3 released
- 08 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.2 released
- 14 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grwidget.
- 11 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grwidget.
- 11 Jul 20262 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 GR Widget for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 days ago (28 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
- It carries 8 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
- 2 of 2 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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