Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Username Changer
Active installs40,000+ rounded
Current authorDigitalME
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 days ago 27 Aug 2026
Support0 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record23
Rating4.3 /5 · 77
Added to directory15 May 2012
Requires WP3.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by DigitalME 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghost1227 | 2 | 21 Feb 2014 | 06 May 2014 |
| section214 | 8 | 31 Aug 2014 | 05 Jul 2017 |
| evertiro | 5 | 29 Oct 2017 | 25 May 2020 |
| digitalmeactivecampaign | 6 | 20 Nov 2025 | 09 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.
Widely adopted: 40,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
470 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 84% 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 8,849/day07 Sep 2026
6 ratings left in the last 37 days, averaging 1.3 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.3 (5 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are running below the lifetime figure, which an average built over years would hide.
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 | — | 8,849 | 1,101 | 764 | 8,841 | 609 | 422 | 849 | 0 | 788 | 624 | 514 | 282 | 236 |
| Ratings total | 71 | 74 | 75 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 |
| Version | 3.3.0 | 3.3.0 | 3.3.0 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 |
| Support threads | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (40,000+) · 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 directory14 years ago 15 May 2012
Requires WP3.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 27 Aug 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 0 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 25 other plugins, 3 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.
- 27 Aug 202611 days agoVersion 3.3.1 released
- 24 Aug 202614 days agoVersion 3.3.0 released
- 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.
- 09 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 3.2.9 released
- 14 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.2.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by digitalmeactivecampaign.
- 13 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by digitalmeactivecampaign.
- 08 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by digitalmeactivecampaign.
- 06 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by digitalmeactivecampaign.
- 20 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 3.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by digitalmeactivecampaign.
- 25 May 20206 years agoVersion 3.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by evertiro.
- 13 Feb 20206.5 years agoVersion 3.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by evertiro.
- 07 Feb 20206.5 years agoVersion 3.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by evertiro.
- 31 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 3.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by evertiro.
- 29 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 3.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by evertiro.
- 05 Jul 20179 years agoVersion 3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by section214.
- 12 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by section214.
- 21 Feb 201412 years ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 21 Feb 2014 and 12 Jan 2017. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 May 201214 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 DigitalME for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 days ago (27 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 40,000+ active installs.
- It carries 77 ratings, averaging 4.3 out of 5.
- 0 of 2 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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