Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Reading Time WP
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authoryingles
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 days ago 26 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record31
Rating4.8 /5 · 20
Added to directory15 Nov 2014
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
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 yingles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| yingles | 3 | 30 Nov 2014 | 30 Nov 2014 |
| yingling017 | 27 | 25 Dec 2014 | 17 Nov 2024 |
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.
1,571 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 1292% 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 7,677/day03 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 20,000+ on 22 Aug 2026, from 30,000+. 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 | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 98 | 103 | 75 | 109 | 0 | 288 | 7,677 | 780 | 350 | 360 | 0 | 1,305 | 527 |
| Active installs | 30,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ |
| Version | 2.0.17 | 2.0.17 | 2.0.17 | 2.0.17 | 2.0.17 | 2.0.17 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 | 2.0.18 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (20) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
33 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 15 Nov 2014
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Aug 2026, 8 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- yingles 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.
- 26 Aug 20268 days agoVersion 2.0.18 released
- 26 Aug 20268 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 647 days after the previous one (2024-11-17). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 20 Aug 202614 days agoInstall band moved to 30,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 18 Aug 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 20,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 30,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 11 May 20264 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-11-17). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 17 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 2.0.17 released
- 10 Apr 20242 years agoVersion 2.0.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 10 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 10 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 30 Mar 20233 years agoVersion 2.0.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 08 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.0.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 08 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.0.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 10 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 2.0.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 21 Nov 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 01 Nov 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 30 Oct 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 30 Oct 20196.5 years agoVersion 2.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 18 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yingling017.
- 30 Nov 201411 years ago17 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Nov 2014 and 05 Mar 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 Nov 201411 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 yingles for all 33 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 days ago (26 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 20 ratings, averaging 4.8 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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