Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Simple SMTP
Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorCasey
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 months ago 11 Aug 2025
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record25
Rating5.0 /5 · 11
Added to directory17 Mar 2020
Requires WP5.0
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 Casey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| soupbowl | 25 | 17 Mar 2020 | 11 Aug 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: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
34 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 25% 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 68/day07 Sep 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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 68 | 40 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 35 | 47 | 34 | 52 | 34 | 11 | 23 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (11) · active installs (2,000+) · version (1.3.4.1) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (0)
37 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 directory6.5 years ago 17 Mar 2020
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 11 Aug 2025, 392 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 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 14 Dec 2022.
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 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 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 1.3.4.1 released
- 09 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 1.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 12 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 1.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 12 Apr 20233 years agoVersion 1.3.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 22 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.3.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 01 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 22 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 09 Apr 20224 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 23 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 12 Dec 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 24 Oct 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 14 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 12 Sep 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by soupbowl.
- 17 Mar 20206.5 years ago12 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Mar 2020 and 11 Jul 2021. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 17 Mar 20206.5 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 Casey for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 months ago (11 Aug 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 11 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
- 0 of 1 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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