Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Video Dashboard
Active installs600+ rounded
Current authorPageCrafter
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 days ago 21 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record7
Rating5.0 /5 · 6
Added to directory02 Jun 2014
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
21 Aug 2026
Owner display name changed
“brianjohnsondesign” → “PageCrafter”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| brianjohnsondesign | 6 | 02 Jun 2014 | 11 Mar 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.
Small but established: 600+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 39% 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 230/day07 Sep 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 | 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 | — | 12 | 38 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (600+) · version (2.0.0) · support threads (0) · 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 directory12 years ago 02 Jun 2014
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.2
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Aug 2026, 17 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- PageCrafter 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.
- 21 Aug 202617 days agoVersion 2.0.0 released
- 21 Aug 202617 days agoOwner display name changed“brianjohnsondesign” → “PageCrafter”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 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.
- 11 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 1.2.1.1 released
- 10 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjohnsondesign.
- 01 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjohnsondesign.
- 10 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjohnsondesign.
- 06 Aug 201610 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjohnsondesign.
- 02 Jun 201412 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brianjohnsondesign.
- 02 Jun 201412 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 PageCrafter for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 16 days ago (21 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 600+ active installs.
- It carries 6 ratings, averaging 5.0 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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