Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs300+ rounded
Current authorSander van Dragt
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 days ago 13 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record12
Rating4.7 /5 · 6
Added to directory10 May 2011
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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 Sander van Dragt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pacifika | 11 | 10 May 2011 | 13 Aug 2026 |
| deployer | 1 | 05 Nov 2018 | 05 Nov 2018 |
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.
8 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 30% 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 157/day30 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 | 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 | — | 11 | 23 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (300+) · version (1.1.8) · 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 directory15 years ago 10 May 2011
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Aug 2026, 18 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.
- Sander van Dragt 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.
- 13 Aug 202618 days agoVersion 1.1.8 released
- 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.
- 07 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 1.1.7 released
- 06 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 05 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 25 Mar 20206 years agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 05 Nov 20187.5 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deployer.
- 01 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 06 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 04 Nov 20169.5 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 23 Jul 201511 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 10 May 201115 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 10 May 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pacifika.
- 10 May 201115 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 Sander van Dragt for all 29 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 days ago (13 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
- It carries 6 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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