Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Show/Hide Shortcode

Name: Show/Hide Shortcode
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Lars Wallenborn

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs300+ rounded

Current authorLars Wallenborn

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release20 months ago 03 Jan 2025

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating5.0 /5 · 3

Added to directory28 Mar 2021

Requires WP5.7

Requires PHP7.3

Version lag0.4 behind

Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Lars Wallenborn throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

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: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

2 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 50% 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 11/day10 Sep 2026

5.0

out of 5
3 ratings

5★3

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★0

Install band rose to 300+ on 04 Sep 2026, from 200+. 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	28 Aug	29 Aug	30 Aug	31 Aug	01 Sep	02 Sep	03 Sep	04 Sep	05 Sep	06 Sep	07 Sep	08 Sep	09 Sep	10 Sep
Downloads that day	—	11	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Active installs	300+	300+	300+	300+	300+	300+	200+	300+	300+	300+	300+	300+	300+	300+

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · version (1.0.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

40 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 directory5 years ago 28 Mar 2021

Requires WP5.7

Requires PHP7.3

Version lag0.4 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

No release in 616 days (1.7 years). The last was 03 Jan 2025.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
Lars Wallenborn publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.

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.

03 Sep 20268 days ago
Install band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
05 Aug 20261 month ago
Install band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
02 Aug 20261 month ago
Install band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
02 Aug 20261 month ago
First 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.
27 Jun 20262 months ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-01-03). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
03 Jan 202520 months ago
Version 1.0.1 released
28 Mar 20215 years ago
Added 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 Lars Wallenborn for all 40 days we have observed it.
It was last released 20 months ago (03 Jan 2025).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
It carries 3 ratings, averaging 5.0 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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