Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Content Censor
Active installs500+ rounded
Current authorgwycon
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release20 days ago 11 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record38
Rating4.5 /5 · 4
Added to directory27 Feb 2009
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 gwycon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gwycon | 13 | 28 Feb 2009 | 15 Jul 2011 |
| dgwyer | 25 | 02 Apr 2012 | 11 Aug 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.
Small but established: 500+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
109 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 33% 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 1,556/day31 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 500+ on 15 Aug 2026, from 600+. 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 | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 287 | 172 | 173 | 114 | 62 | 90 | 172 | 0 | 318 | 106 | 0 | 120 | 45 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · active installs (500+) · version (3.2.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
30 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 directory17 years ago 27 Feb 2009
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 11 Aug 2026, 21 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.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, 1 of which was 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 202621 days agoVersion 3.2.1 released
- 11 Aug 202621 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 1,035 days after the previous one (2023-10-11). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 05 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Aug 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202630 days 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.
- 03 Apr 202517 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2023-10-11). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 11 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 3.1.0 released
- 14 Jul 20206 years agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 21 Sep 20187.5 years agoVersion 2.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 13 Sep 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 28 Mar 20179 years agoVersion 2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 25 Mar 20179 years agoVersion 2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 14 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.56 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 13 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.55 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 26 Sep 20169.5 years agoVersion 2.51 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 04 Jun 201610 years agoVersion 2.50 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 10 May 201610 years agoVersion 2.49 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 09 May 201610 years agoVersion 2.47 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 09 May 201610 years agoVersion 2.48 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dgwyer.
- 28 Feb 200917 years ago24 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 28 Feb 2009 and 20 Jul 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Feb 200917 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 gwycon for all 30 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 20 days ago (11 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 500+ active installs.
- It carries 4 ratings, averaging 4.5 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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