Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
IP Address Approval
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorIP Address Approval
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release15 months ago 11 Jun 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record24
Rating3.7 /5 · 3
Added to directory25 Jan 2020
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 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 IP Address Approval 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ipapproval | 24 | 08 Mar 2020 | 11 Jun 2025 |
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.
3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 44% 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 27/day15 Sep 2026
Install band rose to 100+ on 02 Sep 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 | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep | 14 Sep | 15 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 12 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (100+) · version (1.9.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
45 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 directory6.5 years ago 25 Jan 2020
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 11 Jun 2025, 462 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- IP Address Approval 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.
- 24 Aug 202623 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Aug 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 90+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.
- 06 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 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 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.
- 11 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 1.9.2 released
- 27 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 26 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 11 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 1.8.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 23 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 1.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 20 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 19 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 13 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 29 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 18 Aug 20224 years agoVersion 1.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 10 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 16 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 16 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ipapproval.
- 08 Mar 20206.5 years ago11 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 08 Mar 2020 and 04 Nov 2021. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 25 Jan 20206.5 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 IP Address Approval for all 45 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 15 months ago (11 Jun 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 3 ratings, averaging 3.7 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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