Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Random Post Thumbnails
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorBrianna Deleasa
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 months ago 27 Jul 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating5.0 /5 · 8
Added to directory28 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.5
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 Brianna Deleasa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bdeleasa | 33 | 17 Mar 2015 | 27 Jul 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.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 20% 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 11/day28 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 | 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 | 28 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (8) · active installs (1,000+) · version (2.6.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
27 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 28 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 27 Jul 2025, 398 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.
- Brianna Deleasa 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 202627 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.
- 27 Jul 202513 months agoVersion 2.6.3 released
- 24 Jul 202513 months agoVersion 2.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 09 Jan 202520 months agoVersion 2.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 14 Dec 202420 months agoVersion 2.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 01 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 2.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 30 Apr 20188 years agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 14 Apr 20188 years agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 18 Mar 20188 years agoVersion 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 08 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 08 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 18 Sep 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 18 Sep 20178.5 years agoVersion 2.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 11 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 2.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bdeleasa.
- 17 Mar 201511 years ago20 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Mar 2015 and 10 Dec 2016. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 28 Dec 201411 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 Brianna Deleasa for all 27 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 months ago (27 Jul 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 8 ratings, averaging 5.0 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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