Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce – Retainful
Active installs500+ rounded
Current authorretainful
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 days ago 20 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating5.0 /5 · 35
Added to directory09 Mar 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by retainful throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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.
Small but established: 500+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
55 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 321% 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 193/day27 Aug 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 | 14 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 27 | 193 | 46 | 23 | 22 | 37 | 35 |
| Ratings total | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Version | 1.0.8 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (500+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
26 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 directory6 months ago 09 Mar 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 20 Aug 2026, 8 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 19 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.
- 20 Aug 20268 days agoVersion 1.0.9 released
- 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.
- 22 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.8 released
- 09 Mar 20266 months 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 retainful for all 26 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 days ago (20 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 500+ active installs.
- It carries 35 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.
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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