Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Pagebar2
Active installs900+ rounded
Current authorLutz Schröer
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 years ago 31 Jul 2022
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record18
Rating3.7 /5 · 3
Added to directory16 Jan 2007
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag1.1 behind
Tested up toWP 6.0.14 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Lutz Schröer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latz | 17 | 28 Jun 2010 | 10 Sep 2012 |
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.
3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 30% 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 13/day03 Sep 2026
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 | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (900+) · version (2.70) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
33 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 directory19 years ago 16 Jan 2007
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag1.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,495 days (4.1 years). The last was 31 Jul 2022.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.0.14, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 11 releases.
- The same account maintains 7 other plugins, 1 of which was 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.
- 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.
- 22 Jan 20242.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2022-07-31). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 31 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 2.70 released
- 10 Sep 201213 years agoVersion pagebar259 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar133 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar200 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar201 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar215 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar216 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar217 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar218 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar219 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar220 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar221 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 24 Jan 201214 years agoVersion pagebar250 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Latz.
- 28 Jun 201016 years ago5 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 28 Jun 2010 and 24 Jan 2012. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 16 Jan 200719 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 Lutz Schröer for all 33 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 years ago (31 Jul 2022).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.0.14; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 900+ 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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