Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PiwigoPress
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorvpiwigo
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 27 May 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record15
Rating3.7 /5 · 6
Added to directory26 Oct 2009
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
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 vpiwigo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| vpiwigo | 3 | 25 Jul 2012 | 05 Aug 2012 |
| norbusan | 12 | 20 Nov 2014 | 27 May 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: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 40% 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
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 | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (200+) · version (2.35) · 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 directory16 years ago 26 Oct 2009
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 27 May 2026, 95 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.
- vpiwigo 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.
- 02 Aug 202627 days 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.
- 27 May 20263 months agoVersion 2.35 released
- 26 May 20263 months agoVersion 2.34 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 10 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.32 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 01 Sep 201510 years agoVersion 2.31 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 25 Jul 201511 years agoVersion 2.30 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 22 Apr 201511 years agoVersion 2.29 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 17 Apr 201511 years agoVersion 2.28 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 06 Mar 201511 years agoVersion 2.27 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 18 Feb 201511 years agoVersion 2.26 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 21 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 2.25 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 20 Nov 201411 years agoVersion 2.23 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 20 Nov 201411 years agoVersion 2.24 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by norbusan.
- 05 Aug 201214 years agoVersion 2.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by vpiwigo.
- 25 Jul 201214 years ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Jul 2012 and 25 Jul 2012. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 26 Oct 200916 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 vpiwigo for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (27 May 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 6 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.
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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