Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Instabot: Chatbot to Increase Conversions on WordPress. Try for Free
Active installs40+ rounded
Current authorinstabot
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 months ago 06 Feb 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record15
Rating5.0 /5 · 3
Added to directory22 Mar 2018
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
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 instabot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| instabot | 10 | 22 Mar 2018 | 23 Sep 2020 |
| abidzan | 5 | 16 May 2022 | 06 Feb 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.
Very early-stage: 40+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
13 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 102% 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 22/day10 Sep 2026
Install band rose to 40+ on 28 Aug 2026, from 30+. 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 | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (40+) · version (1.14) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
40 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 22 Mar 2018
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 06 Feb 2026, 217 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.
- instabot 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.
- 27 Aug 202615 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Aug 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 25 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 40+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.
- 06 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 1.14 released
- 06 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 1.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abidzan.
- 06 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 1.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abidzan.
- 05 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 1.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abidzan.
- 16 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abidzan.
- 23 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 25 Jun 20206 years agoVersion 1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 29 Oct 20187.5 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 28 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 28 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 28 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 28 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 28 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by instabot.
- 22 Mar 20188.5 years ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Mar 2018 and 23 Mar 2018. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Mar 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 instabot for all 40 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 months ago (06 Feb 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 40+ active installs.
- It carries 3 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
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