Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Hummingbird Performance – Cache & Page Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals | Critical CSS | Minify CSS | Defer CSS Javascript | CDN
Active installs70,000+ rounded
Current authorWPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 days ago 01 Sep 2026
Support2 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record78
Rating4.7 /5 · 1,487
Added to directory09 Jun 2017
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jdailey | 10 | 04 Jul 2017 | 13 Dec 2019 |
| igmoweb | 1 | 13 Jul 2017 | 13 Jul 2017 |
| WPMUDEV | 1 | 03 Aug 2017 | 03 Aug 2017 |
| vanyukov | 26 | 08 Aug 2017 | 06 Jun 2022 |
| rickjc89 | 2 | 03 Nov 2020 | 30 Mar 2021 |
| khaxan | 37 | 01 Nov 2022 | 20 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 70,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
5,158 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 887% 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 32,291/day03 Sep 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 | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 615 | 348 | 494 | 614 | 552 | 1,159 | 471 | 482 | 384 | 730 | 586 | 32,291 |
| Version | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.20.0 | 3.21.2 | 3.21.2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1,487) · active installs (70,000+) · support threads (2) · threads resolved (2)
33 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 directory9 years ago 09 Jun 2017
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 01 Sep 2026, 3 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.
- 2 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, 7 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.
- 01 Sep 20263 days agoVersion 3.21.2 released
- 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.
- 20 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 3.20.0 released
- 18 May 20264 months agoVersion 3.19.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 26 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 3.18.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 15 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 3.18.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 20 Nov 20259 months agoVersion 3.17.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 06 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 3.17.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 03 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 3.16.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 14 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 3.15.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 29 May 202515 months agoVersion 3.14.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 25 Apr 202516 months agoVersion 3.13.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 26 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 3.13.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 12 Feb 202519 months agoVersion 3.12.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 23 Dec 202420 months agoVersion 3.11.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 04 Jul 20179 years ago64 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 04 Jul 2017 and 22 Oct 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 09 Jun 20179 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 WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform for all 33 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 days ago (01 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 70,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1,487 ratings, averaging 4.7 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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