Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Hoo Contact Form
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorHooThemes
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release5.5 years ago 28 Dec 2020
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory25 Sep 2017
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.5 behind
Tested up toWP 5.6.19 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by HooThemes 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.
Small but established: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 21% 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/day29 Aug 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 100+ on 29 Aug 2026, from 90+. 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 | 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 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Active installs | 60+ | 60+ | 90+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 90+ | 100+ | 90+ | 100+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · version (1.0.1) · 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 directory8.5 years ago 25 Sep 2017
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.5 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 2,071 days (5.7 years). The last was 28 Dec 2020.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.6.19, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 15 releases.
- The same account maintains 5 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 12 Nov 2022.
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.
- 28 Aug 2026yesterdayInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 27 Aug 20262 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Aug 20263 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 202610 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 18 Aug 202611 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 16 Aug 202613 days agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 13 Aug 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 202619 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Aug 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 07 Aug 202622 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 202623 days agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 21 Jun 20224 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2020-12-28). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 28 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.0.1 released
- 25 Sep 20178.5 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 HooThemes for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 5.5 years ago (28 Dec 2020).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.6.19; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ 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.
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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