Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Most And Least Read Posts Widget

Name: Most And Least Read Posts Widget
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: whiletrue

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs900+ rounded

Current authorwhiletrue

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release15 days ago 14 Aug 2026

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record3

Rating5.0 /5 · 6

Added to directory08 Aug 2011

Requires WP2.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date

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Ownership

Held by whiletrue 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
whiletrue	3	08 Aug 2011	14 Aug 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: 900+ 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, falling 34% 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 29/day29 Aug 2026

5.0

out of 5
6 ratings

5★6

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★0

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	16 Aug	17 Aug	18 Aug	19 Aug	20 Aug	21 Aug	22 Aug	23 Aug	24 Aug	25 Aug	26 Aug	27 Aug	28 Aug	29 Aug
Downloads that day	—	12	11	0	11	11	11	11	0	12	0	11	11	11

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (900+) · version (2.5.21) · 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 directory15 years ago 08 Aug 2011

Requires WP2.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 14 Aug 2026, 16 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
The same account maintains 6 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.

14 Aug 202615 days ago
Version 2.5.21 released
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.
18 May 201610 years ago
Version 2.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by whiletrue.
08 Aug 201115 years ago
Version 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by whiletrue.
08 Aug 201115 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 whiletrue for all 28 days we have observed it.
It was last released 15 days ago (14 Aug 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 900+ active installs.
It carries 6 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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