Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Eway Payments for Woo
Active installs3,000+ rounded
Current authorewaypayments
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release18 days ago 20 Aug 2026
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record39
Rating3.2 /5 · 5
Added to directory03 May 2018
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by ewaypayments since 29 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
29 Aug 2026
Custody change
WooCommerce → ewaypayments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| automattic | 18 | 03 May 2018 | 31 Jul 2023 |
| bor0 | 2 | 23 May 2018 | 19 Nov 2018 |
| cshultz88 | 3 | 17 Oct 2018 | 09 Aug 2019 |
| bartoszbudzanowski | 1 | 17 Apr 2019 | 17 Apr 2019 |
| woothemes | 8 | 29 Oct 2019 | 28 Sep 2023 |
| wpmuguru | 1 | 27 Aug 2020 | 27 Aug 2020 |
| ewaypayments | 5 | 18 Jan 2024 | 13 Oct 2025 |
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: 3,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
42 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 45% 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 1,271/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 | — | 150 | 0 | 133 | 45 | 44 | 24 | 61 | 48 | 58 | 48 | 33 | 22 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · active installs (3,000+) · version (3.9.3) · support threads (1) · 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 03 May 2018
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 20 Aug 2026, 18 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- ewaypayments 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.
- 29 Aug 20269 days agoCustody changeWooCommerce → ewaypayments.
- 20 Aug 202618 days agoVersion 3.9.3 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.
- 13 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 3.9.2 released
- 10 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 3.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ewaypayments.
- 09 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 3.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ewaypayments.
- 30 Jan 202519 months agoVersion 3.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ewaypayments.
- 18 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 3.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ewaypayments.
- 28 Sep 20232.5 years agoVersion 3.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by woothemes.
- 31 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 3.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 20 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 3.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by woothemes.
- 04 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 3.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 04 Apr 20233 years agoVersion 3.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 13 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 09 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 03 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.1.26 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 03 May 20188 years ago25 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 03 May 2018 and 03 Jan 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 03 May 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 29 Aug 2026, to ewaypayments.
- It was last released 18 days ago (20 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs.
- It carries 5 ratings, averaging 3.2 out of 5.
- 0 of 1 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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