Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security

Active installs40,000+ rounded
Current authorSecuPress
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 21 Jul 2026
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record8
Rating4.1 /5 · 107
Added to directory23 Aug 2016
Requires WP5.4
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by SecuPress 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
juliobox430 Jun 202503 Dec 2025
SecuPress416 Jan 202621 Jul 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.

Widely adopted: 40,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.

194 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 13% 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 383/day04 Sep 2026
4.1
out of 5
107 ratings
57671%
455%
355%
255%
11615%

Opinion is split: 71% rate it five stars and 15% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

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.

Field22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug29 Aug30 Aug31 Aug01 Sep02 Sep03 Sep04 Sep
Downloads that day1381202942352342502231021312952710333

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (107) · active installs (40,000+) · version (2.6.3) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (0)

34 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 directory10 years ago 23 Aug 2016
Requires WP5.4
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.1 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 21 Jul 2026, 46 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
  • 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • The same account maintains 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 02 Dec 2025.

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.

  1. 02 Aug 20261 month ago
    First 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.
  2. 21 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 2.6.3 released
  3. 03 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 2.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SecuPress.
  4. 03 Apr 20265 months ago
    Version 2.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SecuPress.
  5. 16 Jan 20268 months ago
    Version 2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SecuPress.
  6. 03 Dec 20259 months ago
    Version 2.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by juliobox.
  7. 02 Dec 20259 months ago
    Version 2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by juliobox.
  8. 07 Oct 202511 months ago
    Version 2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by juliobox.
  9. 30 Jun 202514 months ago
    Version 2.3.20.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by juliobox.
  10. 23 Aug 201610 years ago
    Added 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 SecuPress for all 34 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 1 month ago (21 Jul 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 40,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 107 ratings, averaging 4.1 out of 5.
  • 0 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.

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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