Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PromoBar by BestWebSoft – Customizable Advertisement Banner for WordPress Website
Active installs60+ rounded
Current authorbestweblayout
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release15 months ago 10 Jun 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record22
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory03 Mar 2015
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by bestweblayout 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bestwebsoft | 22 | 03 Mar 2015 | 10 Jun 2025 |
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: 60+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 100% 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.
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 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (60+) · version (1.2.1) · 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 directory11 years ago 03 Mar 2015
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 10 Jun 2025, 444 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- The same account maintains 30 other plugins, 1 of which was 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 202626 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.
- 10 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 1.2.1 released
- 12 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 11 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 1.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 22 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 1.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 10 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 04 Sep 20196.5 years agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 28 Nov 20187.5 years agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 01 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 21 Dec 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 21 Jul 20179 years agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 17 Apr 20179 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 07 Feb 20179.5 years agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 08 Jul 201610 years agoVersion 1.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bestwebsoft.
- 03 Mar 201511 years ago9 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 03 Mar 2015 and 20 May 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 03 Mar 201511 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 bestweblayout for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 15 months ago (10 Jun 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 60+ 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.
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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