Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player
Active installs900+ rounded
Current authorSandeep Verma
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 months ago 19 Nov 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating2.8 /5 · 16
Added to directory05 Feb 2013
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHP5.2.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Sandeep Verma 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| svnlabs | 1 | 19 Nov 2025 | 19 Nov 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.
Small but established: 900+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
9 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 14% 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 22/day28 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 900+ on 22 Aug 2026, from 1,000+. 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 | 15 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Active installs | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 1,000+ | 1,000+ | 900+ | 1,000+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (16) · version (2.1.8) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
27 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 directory13 years ago 05 Feb 2013
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHP5.2.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 19 Nov 2025, 282 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- The same account maintains 9 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 05 Mar 2026.
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.
- 21 Aug 20267 days agoInstall band moved to 1,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Aug 20268 days agoInstall band moved to 900+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 18 Aug 202610 days agoInstall band moved to 1,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 15 Aug 202613 days agoInstall band moved to 900+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 1,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202626 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.
- 19 Nov 20259 months agoVersion 2.1.8 released
- 05 Feb 201313 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 Sandeep Verma for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 months ago (19 Nov 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 900+ active installs.
- It carries 16 ratings, averaging 2.8 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.
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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