Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

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Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: Tim Eckel

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs3,000+ rounded

Current authorTim Eckel

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release7 months ago 30 Jan 2026

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating5.0 /5 · 6

Added to directory09 Mar 2016

Requires WP2.9.0

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag0.2 behind

Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Tim Eckel 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.

Moderately adopted: 3,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

16 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 33/day07 Sep 2026

5.0

out of 5
6 ratings

5★6

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★0

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	—	11	22	22	15	24	0	33	0	11	22	16	22	11

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (3,000+) · version (1.6.1) · 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 directory10 years ago 09 Mar 2016

Requires WP2.9.0

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag0.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 30 Jan 2026, 220 days ago.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
The same account maintains 2 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 18 Mar 2026.

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 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.
30 Jan 20267 months ago
Version 1.6.1 released
09 Mar 201610 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 Tim Eckel for all 37 days we have observed it.
It was last released 7 months ago (30 Jan 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs.
It carries 6 ratings, 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.

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