Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
Active installs50,000+ rounded
Current authorWoosuite
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 08 Jun 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating3.7 /5 · 59
Added to directory17 Jan 2017
Requires WP4.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Woosuite 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| themealien | 32 | 02 Feb 2017 | 08 Jun 2026 |
| rextheme | 1 | 06 Feb 2020 | 06 Feb 2020 |
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: 50,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
242 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 20% 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 327/day28 Aug 2026
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 | 15 Aug | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 225 | 180 | 278 | 0 | 207 | 308 | 225 | 251 | 178 | 230 | 220 | 269 | 324 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (59) · active installs (50,000+) · version (2.2.7) · 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 directory9.5 years ago 17 Jan 2017
Requires WP4.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 08 Jun 2026, 81 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- Woosuite publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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 202626 days 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.
- 08 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 2.2.7 released
- 06 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 03 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 28 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 23 Mar 20242 years agoVersion 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 28 Dec 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 03 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 23 May 20233 years agoVersion 2.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 18 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 2.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 27 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 23 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 2.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 18 Mar 20224 years agoVersion 2.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 07 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 2.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themealien.
- 02 Feb 20179.5 years ago20 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 02 Feb 2017 and 06 Jan 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 17 Jan 20179.5 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 Woosuite for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (08 Jun 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 50,000+ active installs.
- It carries 59 ratings, averaging 3.7 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- 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.
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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