Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Htaccess File Editor – Easily Edit, Backup, Restore .htaccess file
Active installs8,000+ rounded
Current authorWP Chill
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 months ago 02 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record21
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory24 Feb 2018
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 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 WP Chill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mantrabrain | 15 | 20 Jun 2019 | 22 Jul 2023 |
| altesin | 4 | 21 Aug 2024 | 02 Dec 2025 |
| wpchill | 1 | 23 Aug 2024 | 23 Aug 2024 |
| raldea89 | 1 | 04 Oct 2024 | 04 Oct 2024 |
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.
Moderately adopted: 8,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
14 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 26% 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 23/day28 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 | 15 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 12 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · active installs (8,000+) · version (1.0.22) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
27 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 24 Feb 2018
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 02 Dec 2025, 269 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- The same account maintains 28 other plugins, 20 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 02 Aug 202626 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.
- 02 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 1.0.22 released
- 02 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 1.0.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
- 21 Oct 202510 months agoVersion 1.0.20 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
- 04 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 1.0.19 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by raldea89.
- 23 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 1.0.18 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchill.
- 21 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 1.0.17 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
- 22 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 1.0.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 06 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 12 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 10 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 30 Mar 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 10 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.0.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 28 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.0.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mantrabrain.
- 20 Jun 20197 years ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 20 Jun 2019 and 28 Jan 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 24 Feb 20188.5 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 WP Chill for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 months ago (02 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 8,000+ active installs.
- It carries 2 ratings, averaging 5.0 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
Similar plugins
Plugins that share this one’s tags and talk about the same things in their own descriptions. Distinctive tags count for far more than broad ones. Sharing hover means something, sharing woocommerce does not, and a plugin that never mentions the subject matter is left out however its author tagged it. Among close matches, more widely installed plugins are listed first. This is a grouping rather than a ranking of quality.
Htaccess File Editor – Safely Edit Htaccess File
A safe & simple htaccess file editor with automatic htaccess backups & htaccess file syntax testing.
40,000+ installs5.0★ (102)updated 16 Aug 2026
Compare side by side Easy Digital Downloads – htaccess Editor
Edit your htaccess file directly from EDD!
70+ installs5.0★ (1)updated 03 Feb 2026
far fewer installs
Compare side by side MyBrain Utilities
My Brain Wordpress Utilities - Backup of configuration files .htaccess and wp-config, stay logged-in longer & a simple OpenStreetMap Map.
20+ installsupdated 09 Jun 2026
far fewer installs
Compare side by side Custom .htaccess rules manager
Manage custom .htaccess rules (top and bottom blocks) with shell-mode syntax highlighting and auto-expanding editor.
fewer than 10 installsupdated 28 Jun 2026
Compare side by side WP Htaccess Edit
Simple and Safe WordPress htaccess file editor.
20+ installsupdated 18 Apr 2020
far fewer installs · no release in over 18 months
Compare side by side Grouped from the tags each author chose for their own plugin, so the grouping is only as good as those tags.
Reach out about this record
Corrections, missing context, or anything else about Htaccess File Editor – Easily Edit, Backup, Restore .htaccess file: a person reads every submission, and corrections get a reply within 5 business days.