Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Simple JWT Auth – JWT Authentication for WP REST API
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorSayan Dey
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 days ago 26 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record4
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory31 Oct 2024
Requires WP7.0
Requires PHP8.2
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Sayan Dey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sayandey18 | 4 | 31 Oct 2024 | 26 Aug 2026 |
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.
Very early-stage: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 47% 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/day03 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratings total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Version | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (0+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
33 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 directory22 months ago 31 Oct 2024
Requires WP7.0
Requires PHP8.2
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Aug 2026, 8 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- Sayan Dey 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.
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.
- 26 Aug 20268 days agoVersion 2.0.0 released
- 26 Aug 20268 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 647 days after the previous one (2024-11-17). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 11 May 20264 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-11-17). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 17 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 1.0.2 released
- 31 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sayandey18.
- 31 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sayandey18.
- 31 Oct 202422 months 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 Sayan Dey for all 33 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 days ago (26 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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