Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Popular Posts

Name: Popular Posts
Author: Aftabul Islam

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Active installs20+ rounded

Current authorAftabul Islam

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release9.5 years ago 16 Feb 2017

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating— no ratings yet

Added to directory16 Feb 2017

Requires WP4.4.0

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag2.4 behind

Tested up toWP 4.7.35 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Aftabul Islam throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

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: 20+ 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, steady 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/day28 Aug 2026

No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.

Install band rose to 20+ on 13 Aug 2026, from 10+. 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	15 Aug	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
Downloads that day	—	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (20+) · version (1.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

27 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 directory9.5 years ago 16 Feb 2017

Requires WP4.4.0

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag2.4 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

No release in 3,481 days (9.5 years). The last was 16 Feb 2017.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 4.7.35, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 24 releases.
The same account maintains 7 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 30 Sep 2025.

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.

02 Aug 202627 days ago
Install band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
02 Aug 202627 days 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.
10 Aug 20188 years ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2017-02-16). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
16 Feb 20179.5 years ago
Version 1.0 released
16 Feb 20179.5 years 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 Aftabul Islam for all 27 days we have observed it.
It was last released 9.5 years ago (16 Feb 2017).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.7.35; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 20+ 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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