Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo
Active installs8,000+ rounded
Current authorDavid Vongries
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 months ago 23 Feb 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record29
Rating4.1 /5 · 43
Added to directory14 Oct 2016
Requires WP4.0
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 David Vongries 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| davidvongries | 29 | 25 Oct 2016 | 23 Feb 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.
Moderately adopted: 8,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
31 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 57/day05 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 8,000+ on 02 Sep 2026, from 9,000+. 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 | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 37 | 35 | 47 | 42 | 34 | 33 | 22 | 22 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 34 |
| Active installs | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 9,000+ | 8,000+ | 8,000+ | 9,000+ | 8,000+ | 8,000+ | 8,000+ | 8,000+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (43) · version (2.10.4) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
35 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 directory9.5 years ago 14 Oct 2016
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 23 Feb 2026, 195 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 8 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 06 Jun 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.
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.
- 01 Sep 20265 days agoInstall band moved to 9,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 30 Aug 20267 days agoInstall band moved to 8,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 9,000+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.
- 23 Feb 20266 months agoVersion 2.10.4 released
- 04 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 2.10.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 05 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 2.10.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 27 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 2.10.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 24 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 2.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 10 May 20242 years agoVersion 2.9.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 01 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.9.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 17 Apr 20233 years agoVersion 2.9.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 11 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.9.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 01 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 2.9.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 02 Mar 20224.5 years agoVersion 2.9.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 14 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 2.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 24 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion 2.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by davidvongries.
- 25 Oct 20169.5 years ago16 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Oct 2016 and 04 Dec 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 14 Oct 20169.5 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 David Vongries for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 months ago (23 Feb 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 8,000+ active installs.
- It carries 43 ratings, averaging 4.1 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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