Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Force Authentification Before Checkout for WooCommerce
Active installs5,000+ rounded
Current authorlinknacional
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release6 months ago 12 Mar 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record13
Rating5.0 /5 · 57
Added to directory18 Jul 2018
Requires WP4.8
Requires PHP7.3
Version lag0.5 behind
Tested up toWP 6.6.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by linknacional since 15 Aug 2026, when it last changed hands. 1 ownership change on record since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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
15 Aug 2026
Custody change, one of 3 plugins
Luiz Bills → linknacional. 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 15 Aug 2026.
Plugins in the same group: shipping-simulator-for-woocommerce, social-icons-for-woocoomerce-emails
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| luizbills | 13 | 18 Jul 2018 | 12 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: 5,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
16 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 24% 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 36/day07 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 5,000+ on 15 Aug 2026, from 6,000+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
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 | — | 22 | 36 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (57) · active installs (5,000+) · version (1.4.6) · 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 directory8 years ago 18 Jul 2018
Requires WP4.8
Requires PHP7.3
Version lag0.5 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 12 Mar 2026, 179 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.6.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 5 releases.
- The same account maintains 24 other plugins, 9 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.
- 15 Aug 202623 days agoCustody change, one of 3 pluginsLuiz Bills → linknacional. 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 15 Aug 2026.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 6,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 12 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 1.4.6 released
- 26 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 1.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 19 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 1.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 29 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 22 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 1.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 21 Mar 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 17 May 20215 years agoVersion 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 03 May 20215 years agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 01 May 20215 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 19 Apr 20215 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 20 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 17 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 18 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by luizbills.
- 18 Jul 20188 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
- The wordpress.org account holding it changed once on 15 Aug 2026, to linknacional.
- 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts in the same window.
- It was last released 6 months ago (12 Mar 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.6.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 5,000+ active installs.
- It carries 57 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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