Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
scrollToTop
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorRoman Sarvarov
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 years ago 12 Jun 2020
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating5.0 /5 · 4
Added to directory20 Jul 2017
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.7 behind
Tested up toWP 5.4.21 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Roman Sarvarov 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: 100+ 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, rising 245% 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 27/day11 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 100+ on 06 Sep 2026, from 200+. 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 | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep | 08 Sep | 09 Sep | 10 Sep | 11 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Active installs | 100+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 100+ | 200+ | 200+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · version (1.16) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
41 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 years ago 20 Jul 2017
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.7 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 2,282 days (6.3 years). The last was 12 Jun 2020.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.4.21, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 17 releases.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 23 May 2020.
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.
- 04 Sep 20267 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Sep 20268 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 30 Aug 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Aug 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 100+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.
- 04 Dec 20214.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2020-06-12). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 12 Jun 20206 years agoVersion 1.16 released
- 20 Jul 20179 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 Roman Sarvarov for all 41 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 years ago (12 Jun 2020).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.4.21; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 4 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.
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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