Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs9,000+ rounded
Current authorKuba Mikita
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 months ago 04 Sep 2025
Support0 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record19
Rating5.0 /5 · 24
Added to directory27 Mar 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Kuba Mikita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubitomakita | 17 | 25 Apr 2015 | 15 Jul 2024 |
| bracketspace | 2 | 25 Aug 2025 | 04 Sep 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.
Moderately adopted: 9,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
18 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 44% 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 24/day27 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 | 14 Aug | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 12 | 22 | 12 | 23 |
| Support threads | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (24) · active installs (9,000+) · version (1.8.1) · threads resolved (0)
26 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 directory11 years ago 27 Mar 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 04 Sep 2025, 358 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.
- 0 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 11 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.
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 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.
- 04 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 1.8.1 released
- 25 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 1.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bracketspace.
- 15 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 1.7.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 17 Mar 20242 years agoVersion 1.7.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 22 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.7.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 19 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 06 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 03 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 08 Aug 20197 years agoVersion 1.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 14 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 1.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 03 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 09 Aug 20179 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 01 Jul 20179 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Kubitomakita.
- 25 Apr 201511 years ago6 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Apr 2015 and 03 Jan 2017. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Mar 201511 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 Kuba Mikita for all 26 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 months ago (04 Sep 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 9,000+ active installs.
- It carries 24 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
- 0 of 2 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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