Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

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Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorThomas Schmall
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 years ago 16 Apr 2014
Support no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory12 Mar 2013
Requires WP2.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.5 behind
Tested up toWP 5.6.19 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Thomas Schmall 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
oxpal228 Mar 201314 Jan 2021

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: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

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 12/day11 Sep 2026
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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.

Field29 Aug30 Aug31 Aug01 Sep02 Sep03 Sep04 Sep05 Sep06 Sep07 Sep08 Sep09 Sep10 Sep11 Sep
Downloads that day000110000001200

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · active installs (100+) · version (1.1.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

41 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 directory13 years ago 12 Mar 2013
Requires WP2.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.5 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • No release in 4,531 days (12.4 years). The last was 16 Apr 2014.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.6.19, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 15 releases.
  • Thomas Schmall 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.

  1. 02 Aug 20261 month 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.
  2. 08 Oct 201510 years ago
    Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2014-04-16). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
  3. 16 Apr 201412 years ago
    Version 1.1.1 released
  4. 28 Mar 201313 years ago
    Version 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by oxpal.
  5. 12 Mar 201313 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 Thomas Schmall for all 41 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 12 years ago (16 Apr 2014).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.6.19; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
  • It carries 1 rating, averaging 5.0 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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