Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Universal Blocks – Drag & Drop Page Builder Blocks and Patterns for Gutenberg Block Editor

Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorAl Imran Akash
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release21 months ago 17 Nov 2024
Support no recent threads
Releases on record1
Ratingno ratings yet
Added to directory10 May 2024
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Al Imran Akash throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

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.

5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 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 11/day28 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.

Field15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug
Downloads that day1101100111101101100

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · version (1.0.2-beta) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

27 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 directory2 years ago 10 May 2024
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.4 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • No release in 650 days (1.8 years). The last was 17 Nov 2024.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
  • The same account maintains 5 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 20 Apr 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.

  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. 11 May 20264 months ago
    Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-11-17). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
  3. 17 Nov 202421 months ago
    Version 1.0.2-beta released
  4. 10 May 20242 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 Al Imran Akash for all 27 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 21 months ago (17 Nov 2024).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; 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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