Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authorSyed Balkhi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 days ago 03 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record45
Rating3.9 /5 · 43
Added to directory09 Sep 2018
Requires WP6.3
Requires PHP5.3.3
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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 Syed Balkhi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| seedprod | 38 | 05 Jul 2019 | 13 Nov 2024 |
| nickkimuliam | 6 | 09 Jul 2025 | 27 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 20,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
1,475 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 1106% 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 8,704/day07 Sep 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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 170 | 117 | 273 | 98 | 120 | 78 | 137 | 462 | 162 | 226 | 8,704 | 384 | 247 |
| Version | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.24 | 1.12.26 | 1.12.26 | 1.12.26 | 1.12.26 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (43) · active installs (20,000+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
37 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 directory7.5 years ago 09 Sep 2018
Requires WP6.3
Requires PHP5.3.3
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Sep 2026, 4 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 97 other plugins, 38 of which were 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.
- 03 Sep 20264 days agoVersion 1.12.26 released
- 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.
- 27 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.12.24 released
- 16 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 1.12.23 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nickkimuliam.
- 01 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 1.12.22 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nickkimuliam.
- 18 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 1.12.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nickkimuliam.
- 18 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 1.12.19 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nickkimuliam.
- 09 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 1.12.18 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nickkimuliam.
- 13 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 1.12.17 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 15 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 19 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 11 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 09 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.12.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 09 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.12.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 07 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.12.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seedprod.
- 05 Jul 20197 years ago31 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 05 Jul 2019 and 29 Feb 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 09 Sep 20187.5 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 Syed Balkhi for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 days ago (03 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 43 ratings, averaging 3.9 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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