Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
podCloud
Active installs50+ rounded
Current authorpodCloud
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release21 months ago 17 Dec 2024
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory08 Jan 2021
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by podCloud 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| podcloud | 8 | 08 Jan 2021 | 17 Dec 2024 |
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: 50+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
8 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 133% 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/day14 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 50+ on 13 Sep 2026, from 40+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
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 | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep | 12 Sep | 13 Sep | 14 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 11 |
| Active installs | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 50+ | 40+ | 50+ | 50+ | 40+ | 50+ | 50+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · version (1.7.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
44 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 directory5.5 years ago 08 Jan 2021
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 636 days (1.7 years). The last was 17 Dec 2024.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
- podCloud 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.
- 12 Sep 20262 days agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Sep 20264 days agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Sep 20265 days agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 28 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 27 Aug 202618 days agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Aug 202619 days agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 25 Aug 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 10 Jun 20263 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-12-17). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 17 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 1.7.0 released
- 17 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 25 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 06 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 06 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 06 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 04 Oct 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 11 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 08 Jan 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podcloud.
- 08 Jan 20215.5 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 podCloud for all 44 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 21 months ago (17 Dec 2024).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 50+ 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.
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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Reach out about this record
Corrections, missing context, or anything else about podCloud: a person reads every submission, and corrections get a reply within 5 business days.