Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Rublon Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorRublon
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release23 days ago 13 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record83
Rating4.2 /5 · 88
Added to directory02 Aug 2013
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.5.1
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Rublon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rublon | 70 | 06 Aug 2013 | 10 Apr 2019 |
| mmlastec | 3 | 24 Jan 2022 | 26 Oct 2022 |
| mraastec | 9 | 23 Mar 2022 | 13 Aug 2026 |
| rublontka | 1 | 19 May 2023 | 19 May 2023 |
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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 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 24/day05 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 400+ on 15 Aug 2026, from 500+. 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 | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (88) · active installs (400+) · version (4.4.5) · 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 directory13 years ago 02 Aug 2013
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.5.1
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Aug 2026, 24 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- Rublon 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.
- 13 Aug 202624 days agoVersion 4.4.5 released
- 12 Aug 202625 days agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 400+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.
- 18 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 4.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 16 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 4.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 22 May 20233 years agoVersion 4.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 22 May 20233 years agoVersion 4.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 19 May 20233 years agoVersion 4.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rublontka.
- 12 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 4.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 26 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 4.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mmlastec.
- 07 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 16 May 20224 years agoVersion 4.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mmlastec.
- 24 Mar 20224 years agoVersion 4.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 23 Mar 20224 years agoVersion 4.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mraastec.
- 24 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mmlastec.
- 06 Aug 201313 years ago70 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Aug 2013 and 10 Apr 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 02 Aug 201313 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 Rublon for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 23 days ago (13 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 88 ratings, averaging 4.2 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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