Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
SEO Friendly Images
Active installs10,000+ rounded
Current authorVladimir Prelovac
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8.5 years ago 28 Nov 2017
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record29
Rating3.0 /5 · 59
Added to directory04 Mar 2008
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.0 behind
Tested up toWP 4.1.42 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Vladimir Prelovac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| freediver | 29 | 18 Jun 2008 | 02 Jan 2015 |
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: 10,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
26 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 27% 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 72/day06 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 10,000+ on 02 Sep 2026, from 20,000+. 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 | 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 | — | 22 | 22 | 22 | 36 | 22 | 0 | 45 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 38 | 44 | 22 |
| Active installs | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 10,000+ | 10,000+ | 10,000+ | 10,000+ | 10,000+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (59) · version (3.0.5) · 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 directory18 years ago 04 Mar 2008
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag3.0 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 3,205 days (8.8 years). The last was 28 Nov 2017.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 4.1.42, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 30 releases.
- The same account maintains 20 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 28 Nov 2017.
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.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 20,000+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.
- 22 May 20197 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2017-11-28). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 28 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 3.0.5 released
- 29 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 3.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 27 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 3.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 26 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 3.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 25 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 21 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 3,0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 05 Sep 201412 years agoVersion 2.7.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 17 Mar 201313 years agoVersion 2.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 31 Jan 201313 years agoVersion 2.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 24 Sep 201213 years agoVersion 2.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 23 Sep 201213 years agoVersion 2.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 20 May 201214 years agoVersion 2.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 01 Apr 201214 years agoVersion 2.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by freediver.
- 18 Jun 200818 years ago16 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 18 Jun 2008 and 19 Jan 2012. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 04 Mar 200818 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 Vladimir Prelovac for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8.5 years ago (28 Nov 2017).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 10,000+ active installs.
- It carries 59 ratings, averaging 3.0 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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