Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

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Active installs10+ rounded
Current authorScott Reilly
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 months ago 25 Apr 2025
Support no recent threads
Releases on record23
Ratingno ratings yet
Added to directory12 Jun 2009
Requires WP3.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Scott Reilly 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
coffee2code2312 Jun 200925 Apr 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.

Very early-stage: 10+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

2 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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/day29 Aug 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.

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.

Field16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug29 Aug
Downloads that day001100011000000

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (10+) · version (2.5) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

28 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 directory17 years ago 12 Jun 2009
Requires WP3.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 25 Apr 2025, 491 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.
  • The same account maintains 64 other plugins, 4 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.

  1. 02 Aug 202627 days ago
    First 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.
  2. 25 Apr 202516 months ago
    Version 2.5 released
  3. 15 Aug 20242 years ago
    Version 2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  4. 22 Aug 20233 years ago
    Version 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  5. 17 Oct 20214.5 years ago
    Version 2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  6. 27 Apr 20215 years ago
    Version 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  7. 17 Aug 20206 years ago
    Version 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  8. 07 May 20206 years ago
    Version 2.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  9. 26 Nov 20196.5 years ago
    Version 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  10. 08 Mar 20197.5 years ago
    Version 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  11. 06 Mar 20179.5 years ago
    Version 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  12. 14 Apr 201610 years ago
    Version 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  13. 13 Aug 201511 years ago
    Version 2.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  14. 12 Feb 201511 years ago
    Version 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by coffee2code.
  15. 12 Jun 200917 years ago
    10 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 12 Jun 2009 and 27 Aug 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  16. 12 Jun 200917 years ago
    Added 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 Scott Reilly for all 28 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 16 months ago (25 Apr 2025).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 10+ 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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