Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
core plugin for kitestudio themes
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorkitestudio
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release5 months ago 07 Apr 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record12
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory21 Apr 2020
Requires WP6.6
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 kitestudio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| kitestudio | 12 | 25 Oct 2023 | 07 Apr 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
8 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 61% 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 20/day13 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band fell to 400+ on 21 Aug 2026, from 500+. 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 | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (400+) · version (2.9.4) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
43 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 years ago 21 Apr 2020
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 07 Apr 2026, 160 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.
- kitestudio 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.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 500+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.
- 07 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.9.4 released
- 02 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 2.9.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 11 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 2.9.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 09 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 2.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 29 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 2.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 30 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2.8.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 06 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 22 May 20242 years agoVersion 2.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 18 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 2.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 13 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 2.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 20 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 25 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kitestudio.
- 21 Apr 20206 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 kitestudio for all 43 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 5 months ago (07 Apr 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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