Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

TabberList

Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorSimon Fairbairn
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 years ago 25 Jan 2010
Support no recent threads
Releases on record4
Ratingno ratings yet
Added to directory23 Dec 2009
Requires WP2.8
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.2 behind
Tested up toWP 2.9.2 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Simon Fairbairn 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
SimonFairbairn410 Jan 201025 Jan 2010

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.

2 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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/day29 Aug 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.

Field16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug29 Aug
Downloads that day00000000011000

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · version (1.0.4) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

28 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 directory16 years ago 23 Dec 2009
Requires WP2.8
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • No release in 6,060 days (16.6 years). The last was 25 Jan 2010.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 2.9.2, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 42 releases.
  • The same account maintains 2 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 05 Aug 2012.

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.

  1. 02 Aug 202627 days 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.
  2. 19 Jul 201115 years ago
    Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2010-01-25). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
  3. 25 Jan 201016 years ago
    Version 1.0.4 released
  4. 10 Jan 201016 years ago
    Version 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SimonFairbairn.
  5. 10 Jan 201016 years ago
    Version 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SimonFairbairn.
  6. 10 Jan 201016 years ago
    Version 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by SimonFairbairn.
  7. 23 Dec 200916 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 Simon Fairbairn for all 28 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 16 years ago (25 Jan 2010).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 2.9.2; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • 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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