Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

NameDrop – A Name Pronunciation Service

Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorNameDrop
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 months ago 31 Mar 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record3
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory18 Jan 2026
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.10 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by NameDrop 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
namedrop318 Jan 202631 Mar 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: fewer than 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, falling 50% 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/day24 Sep 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.

Field11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23 Sep24 Sep
Downloads that day—1100011000000011

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · version (1.0.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

53 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 months ago 18 Jan 2026
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 31 Mar 2026, 177 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.10, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
  • NameDrop 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.

  1. 02 Aug 20262 months 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. 31 Mar 20266 months ago
    Version 1.0.3 released
  3. 23 Feb 20267 months ago
    Version 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by namedrop.
  4. 18 Jan 20268 months ago
    Version 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by namedrop.
  5. 18 Jan 20268 months 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 NameDrop for all 53 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 6 months ago (31 Mar 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.10; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports fewer than 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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