Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Sensei LMS Certificates
Active installs4,000+ rounded
Current authorAutomattic
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 months ago 16 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record14
Rating1.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory27 Apr 2020
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Automattic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| renathoc | 2 | 27 Apr 2020 | 02 Mar 2021 |
| donnapep | 6 | 20 Jul 2020 | 14 Nov 2024 |
| alexsanford1 | 2 | 21 Aug 2020 | 27 Oct 2020 |
| aaronfc | 1 | 11 Jul 2022 | 11 Jul 2022 |
| m1r0 | 3 | 02 Jun 2023 | 16 Dec 2025 |
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.
Moderately adopted: 4,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
45 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 103/day31 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 4,000+ on 14 Aug 2026, from 5,000+. 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 | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 47 | 82 | 68 | 54 | 25 | 0 | 59 | 55 | 36 | 103 | 25 | 34 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · active installs (4,000+) · version (2.5.4) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
30 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 directory6 years ago 27 Apr 2020
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 16 Dec 2025, 259 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 77 other plugins, 33 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.
- 13 Aug 202619 days agoInstall band moved to 5,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 4,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202630 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.
- 16 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 2.5.4 released
- 14 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 2.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 08 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 2.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 19 Sep 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 24 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 2.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by m1r0.
- 02 Jun 20233 years agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by m1r0.
- 11 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by aaronfc.
- 27 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 12 Aug 20215 years agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 02 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by renathoc.
- 27 Oct 20205.5 years agoVersion 2.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexsanford1.
- 21 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexsanford1.
- 20 Jul 20206 years agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donnapep.
- 27 Apr 20206 years ago1 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 27 Apr 2020 and 27 Apr 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Apr 20206 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 Automattic for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 months ago (16 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 4,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, averaging 1.0 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.
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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