Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Popup
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorcornershop
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 months ago 03 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record15
Rating4.2 /5 · 6
Added to directory11 Jan 2019
Requires WP4.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by cornershop 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cornershop | 2 | 11 Jan 2019 | 17 Dec 2019 |
| drywallbmb | 3 | 21 Feb 2019 | 19 Oct 2020 |
| rxnlabs | 3 | 04 Dec 2019 | 17 Jun 2020 |
| rpasillas | 1 | 30 Oct 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 |
| kenjigarland | 6 | 29 Jan 2021 | 03 Dec 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: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
11 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 24% 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 23/day27 Aug 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 | 14 Aug | 15 Aug | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (1,000+) · version (1.2.7) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
26 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 directory7.5 years ago 11 Jan 2019
Requires WP4.3
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Dec 2025, 268 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 15 Jan 2026.
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 202626 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 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 1.2.7 released
- 02 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 1.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kenjigarland.
- 15 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 1.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kenjigarland.
- 07 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kenjigarland.
- 10 May 20215 years agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kenjigarland.
- 29 Jan 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kenjigarland.
- 30 Oct 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rpasillas.
- 19 Oct 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drywallbmb.
- 17 Jun 20206 years agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rxnlabs.
- 17 Jun 20206 years agoVersion 1.1.61 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rxnlabs.
- 17 Dec 20196.5 years agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by cornershop.
- 04 Dec 20196.5 years agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rxnlabs.
- 17 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drywallbmb.
- 11 Jan 20197.5 years ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 11 Jan 2019 and 21 Feb 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 11 Jan 20197.5 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 cornershop for all 26 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 months ago (03 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 6 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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