Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

User Agent Blocker

Active installs60+ rounded
Current authorAdhitya Rachman
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 years ago 31 May 2019
Support no recent threads
Releases on record1
Ratingno ratings yet
Added to directory31 May 2019
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag1.9 behind
Tested up toWP 5.2.26 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Adhitya Rachman 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: 60+ 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/day30 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.

Field17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug29 Aug30 Aug
Downloads that day000011000001100

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (60+) · version (1.0.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

29 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 directory7 years ago 31 May 2019
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag1.9 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • No release in 2,648 days (7.3 years). The last was 31 May 2019.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.2.26, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 19 releases.
  • The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 30 Jun 2019.

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 202628 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. 21 Nov 20205.5 years ago
    Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2019-05-31). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
  3. 31 May 20197 years ago
    Version 1.0.2 released
  4. 31 May 20197 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 Adhitya Rachman for all 29 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 7 years ago (31 May 2019).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.2.26; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 60+ 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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