Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Selfish Fresh Start
Active installs30+ rounded
Current authorChuck Reynolds
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 days ago 20 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record11
Rating4.0 /5 · 5
Added to directory03 Sep 2011
Requires WP7.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Chuck Reynolds 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ryno267 | 11 | 13 Apr 2012 | 20 Aug 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.
Very early-stage: 30+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 38% 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/day06 Sep 2026
Install band rose to 30+ on 29 Aug 2026, from 20+. 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 | 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 | 06 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Active installs | 20+ | 20+ | 20+ | 20+ | 20+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ | 30+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · version (1.3.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
36 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 directory15 years ago 03 Sep 2011
Requires WP7.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 20 Aug 2026, 18 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 3 other plugins, 3 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 22 Aug 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Aug 202618 days agoVersion 1.3.0 released
- 20 Aug 202618 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 3,200 days after the previous one (2017-11-15). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 30+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.
- 09 May 20197 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2017-11-15). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 15 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.2.0 released
- 21 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 03 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 04 Sep 201412 years agoVersion 0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 17 Feb 201412 years agoVersion 0.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 15 Feb 201412 years agoVersion 0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 30 Nov 201213 years agoVersion 0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 19 Nov 201213 years agoVersion 0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 19 Nov 201213 years agoVersion 0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 13 Apr 201214 years agoVersion 0.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ryno267.
- 03 Sep 201115 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 Chuck Reynolds for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 days ago (20 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 30+ active installs.
- It carries 5 ratings, averaging 4.0 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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