Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Email Template Designer – WP HTML Mail
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authorHannes Etzelstorfer
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 months ago 04 Mar 2025
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record81
Rating4.8 /5 · 87
Added to directory22 Jan 2015
Requires WP5.4
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Hannes Etzelstorfer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| haet | 81 | 22 Jan 2015 | 04 Mar 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.
Widely adopted: 20,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
84 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 36% 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 134/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 | — | 46 | 45 | 70 | 82 | 0 | 114 | 109 | 44 | 33 | 134 | 118 | 83 | 70 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (87) · active installs (20,000+) · version (3.4.9) · 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 directory11 years ago 22 Jan 2015
Requires WP5.4
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 550 days (1.5 years). The last was 04 Mar 2025.
- 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.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 23 Oct 2020.
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.
- 26 Aug 202610 days agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-03-04). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 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.
- 04 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 3.4.9 released
- 17 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 3.4.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 25 Mar 20242 years agoVersion 3.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 02 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 3.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 04 Sep 20233 years agoVersion 3.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 14 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 10 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 3.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 17 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.3.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 16 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.3.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 22 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 14 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 14 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 18 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by haet.
- 22 Jan 201511 years ago68 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Jan 2015 and 18 Oct 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Jan 201511 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 Hannes Etzelstorfer for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 months ago (04 Mar 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 87 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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