Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorakrabat
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 years ago 08 Aug 2015
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record19
Rating3.8 /5 · 4
Added to directory12 Apr 2009
Requires WP3.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag2.8 behind
Tested up toWP 4.3.34 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by akrabat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| akrabat | 19 | 12 Apr 2009 | 08 Aug 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.
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.
4 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 155% 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 28/day29 Aug 2026
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 | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · active installs (100+) · version (2.1.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
28 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 directory17 years ago 12 Apr 2009
Requires WP3.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag2.8 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 4,039 days (11.1 years). The last was 08 Aug 2015.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 4.3.34, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 28 releases.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 11 Apr 2009.
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 202627 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.
- 29 Jan 20179.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2015-08-08). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 08 Aug 201511 years agoVersion 2.1.0 released
- 08 Aug 201511 years agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 08 Aug 201511 years agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 16 Apr 201412 years agoVersion 2.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 09 Jul 201214 years agoVersion 2.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 23 Jun 201214 years agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 20 Jun 201214 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 21 Nov 201015 years agoVersion 1.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 21 Nov 201015 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 07 Sep 201015 years agoVersion 1.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 01 Sep 201015 years agoVersion 1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 11 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 10 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akrabat.
- 12 Apr 200917 years ago6 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 12 Apr 2009 and 29 Dec 2009. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 12 Apr 200917 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 akrabat for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 years ago (08 Aug 2015).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.3.34; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 4 ratings, averaging 3.8 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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