Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Stripe Payment Forms by WP Simple Pay – Accept Credit Card Payments + Subscriptions with Stripe
Active installs8,000+ rounded
Current authorSyed Balkhi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 18 Jun 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record58
Rating4.4 /5 · 117
Added to directory27 Mar 2014
Requires WP5.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Syed Balkhi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pderksen | 2 | 14 May 2019 | 31 Aug 2020 |
| SpencerFinnell | 46 | 12 Sep 2019 | 09 Jan 2025 |
| cristianrossi | 10 | 02 Jul 2025 | 18 Jun 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.
Moderately adopted: 8,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
106 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 45% 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 201/day05 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 8,000+ on 09 Aug 2026, from 9,000+. 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 | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 60 | 0 | 85 | 60 | 201 | 59 | 171 | 0 | 86 | 180 | 128 | 92 | 86 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (117) · active installs (8,000+) · version (4.17.3) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)
35 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 directory12 years ago 27 Mar 2014
Requires WP5.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 18 Jun 2026, 80 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 97 other plugins, 38 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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 agoInstall band moved to 9,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 18 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.17.3 released
- 25 May 20263 months agoVersion 4.17.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 09 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 4.17.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 18 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 4.17.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 01 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 4.16.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 30 Oct 202510 months agoVersion 4.16.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 14 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 4.15.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 07 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 4.14.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 08 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 4.14.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 02 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 4.14.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cristianrossi.
- 09 Jan 202520 months agoVersion 4.12.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SpencerFinnell.
- 15 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 4.11.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SpencerFinnell.
- 14 May 20242 years agoVersion 4.10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SpencerFinnell.
- 14 May 20197 years ago45 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 14 May 2019 and 02 Apr 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Mar 201412 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 Syed Balkhi for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (18 Jun 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 8,000+ active installs.
- It carries 117 ratings, averaging 4.4 out of 5.
- 1 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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