Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Bitly's WordPress Plugin
Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorbitlydeveloper
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 months ago 10 Mar 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating4.2 /5 · 23
Added to directory02 Apr 2010
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by bitlydeveloper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| delayedinsanity | 22 | 02 Apr 2010 | 06 Feb 2018 |
| chipbennett | 2 | 19 Dec 2012 | 14 Apr 2016 |
| temeritystudios | 2 | 25 Feb 2018 | 25 Mar 2018 |
| watermelons | 4 | 08 Jan 2024 | 01 Nov 2024 |
| bitlydeveloper | 3 | 14 Apr 2025 | 10 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: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
9 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 16% 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 24/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 | — | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (23) · active installs (2,000+) · version (2.8.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory16 years ago 02 Apr 2010
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 10 Mar 2026, 178 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
- bitlydeveloper 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.
- 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 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.8.1 released
- 10 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bitlydeveloper.
- 14 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 2.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bitlydeveloper.
- 01 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 2.7.3.redo releasedfrom the release logCommitted by watermelons.
- 29 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 2.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by watermelons.
- 02 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by watermelons.
- 08 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion new_version_number releasedfrom the release logCommitted by watermelons.
- 25 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 2.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by temeritystudios.
- 25 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by temeritystudios.
- 06 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by delayedinsanity.
- 31 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by delayedinsanity.
- 31 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by delayedinsanity.
- 24 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by delayedinsanity.
- 02 Apr 201016 years ago20 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 02 Apr 2010 and 14 Apr 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 02 Apr 201016 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 bitlydeveloper for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 months ago (10 Mar 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 23 ratings, averaging 4.2 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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