Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Accessibility
Active installs60,000+ rounded
Current authorJoe Dolson
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release23 days ago 11 Aug 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record28
Rating4.8 /5 · 68
Added to directory22 Oct 2012
Requires WP5.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Joe Dolson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| joedolson | 27 | 22 Oct 2012 | 10 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 60,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
523 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 12% 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 25,034/day04 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 | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 366 | 299 | 838 | 818 | 0 | 1,194 | 583 | 460 | 262 | 499 | 722 | 564 | 573 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (68) · active installs (60,000+) · version (2.3.5) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)
34 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 directory13 years ago 22 Oct 2012
Requires WP5.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 11 Aug 2026, 24 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 5 other plugins, 4 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.
- 11 Aug 202624 days agoVersion 2.3.5 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.
- 10 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.3.4 released
- 26 Mar 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 21 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 24 Oct 202510 months agoVersion 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 03 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 31 Aug 202512 months agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 20 Jul 202514 months agoVersion 2.1.19 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 16 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 12 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 06 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 27 Sep 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.9.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 25 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 25 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by joedolson.
- 22 Oct 201213 years ago14 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Oct 2012 and 15 May 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Oct 201213 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 Joe Dolson for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 23 days ago (11 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 60,000+ active installs.
- It carries 68 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 1 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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