Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Initial Letter
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorGarrett Grimm
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release5.5 years ago 03 Jan 2021
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record8
Rating3.9 /5 · 12
Added to directory21 Dec 2012
Requires WP3.5
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 Garrett Grimm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grimmdude | 8 | 21 Dec 2012 | 03 Jan 2021 |
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: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
0 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 100% 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 11/day07 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 100+ on 24 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 | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (12) · active installs (100+) · version (2.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory13 years ago 21 Dec 2012
Requires WP3.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.5 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 2,073 days (5.7 years). The last was 03 Jan 2021.
- 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 7 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 01 Oct 2024.
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.
- 22 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Aug 202619 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 17 Aug 202622 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 15 Aug 202624 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 11 Aug 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 202629 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 200+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.
- 27 Jun 20224 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2021-01-03). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 03 Jan 20215.5 years agoVersion 2.3 released
- 05 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 09 Sep 20169.5 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 03 Mar 201610 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 03 Mar 201610 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 14 Sep 201411 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 22 Dec 201213 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 21 Dec 201213 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grimmdude.
- 21 Dec 201213 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 Garrett Grimm for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 5.5 years ago (03 Jan 2021).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.6.19; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 12 ratings, averaging 3.9 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.
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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