Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Current Year Shortcode
Active installs70+ rounded
Current authorrunthings.dev
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 months ago 17 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory01 Apr 2025
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by runthings.dev 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.
Very early-stage: 70+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 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 11/day27 Aug 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band fell to 70+ on 27 Aug 2026, from 80+. 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 | 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 | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Active installs | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 70+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 70+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 70+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · version (2.1.1) · 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 directory17 months ago 01 Apr 2025
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 17 Dec 2025, 254 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 10 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 12 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.
- 24 Aug 20264 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Aug 20265 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 18 Aug 202610 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 17 Aug 202611 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 202623 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Aug 202624 days agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 17 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 2.1.1 released
- 01 Apr 202517 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 runthings.dev for all 26 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 months ago (17 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 70+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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