Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Remove XML-RPC Methods

Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorWalter Ebert
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 18 Aug 2026
Support no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory10 Feb 2020
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.4.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Walter Ebert 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
walterebert910 Feb 202026 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.

Moderately adopted: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

13 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 14% 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 48/day29 Aug 2026
5.0
out of 5
2 ratings
52100%
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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.

Field16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug26 Aug27 Aug28 Aug29 Aug
Downloads that day11111148121111112311111111

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · active installs (1,000+) · version (1.4.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

28 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 directory6.5 years ago 10 Feb 2020
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP5.4.0
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 18 Aug 2026, 11 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
  • The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 04 Jul 2024.

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.

  1. 18 Aug 202611 days ago
    Version 1.4.2 released
  2. 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.
  3. 02 Dec 20259 months ago
    Version 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  4. 01 Jul 20242 years ago
    Version 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  5. 03 Aug 20206 years ago
    Version 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  6. 03 Aug 20206 years ago
    Version 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  7. 03 Aug 20206 years ago
    Version 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  8. 07 Mar 20206.5 years ago
    Version 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  9. 10 Feb 20206.5 years ago
    Version 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  10. 10 Feb 20206.5 years ago
    Version 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by walterebert.
  11. 10 Feb 20206.5 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 Walter Ebert for all 28 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 10 days ago (18 Aug 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 2 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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