Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
Active installs300,000+ rounded
Current authorSaad Iqbal
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 30 Jul 2026
Support1 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record62
Rating4.4 /5 · 139
Added to directory02 Feb 2012
Requires WP4.9.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Saad Iqbal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| husobj | 29 | 02 Feb 2012 | 24 Sep 2020 |
| wpexpertsio | 33 | 09 Mar 2022 | 30 Jul 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 widely adopted: 300,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
3,044 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 69% 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 14,700/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 | — | 2,517 | 922 | 1,028 | 0 | 2,650 | 3,224 | 3,903 | 2,414 | 1,313 | 831 | 7,431 | 3,589 | 1,826 |
| Support threads | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Threads resolved | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (139) · active installs (300,000+) · version (2.8.4)
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 directory14 years ago 02 Feb 2012
Requires WP4.9.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 30 Jul 2026, 36 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.
- 1 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 51 other plugins, 26 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.
- 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.
- 30 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 2.8.4 released
- 15 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.8.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 29 Jun 20262 months agoVersion 2.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 04 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 2.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 21 Apr 20264 months agoVersion 2.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 18 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 2.7.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 18 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 2.7.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 26 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 2.7.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 16 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 2.7.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 14 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 2.7.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 27 Jan 202519 months agoVersion 2.7.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 26 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 2.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 14 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 2.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpexpertsio.
- 02 Feb 201214 years ago49 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 02 Feb 2012 and 04 Jun 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 02 Feb 201214 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 Saad Iqbal for all 33 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (30 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 300,000+ active installs.
- It carries 139 ratings, averaging 4.4 out of 5.
- 1 of 2 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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