Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN
Active installs1,000,000+ rounded
Current authorWPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release14 days ago 24 Aug 2026
Support2 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record165
Rating4.8 /5 · 6,051
Added to directory05 Dec 2008
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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 WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| alexdunae | 31 | 06 Dec 2008 | 15 Mar 2013 |
| WPMUDEV | 13 | 22 Mar 2013 | 12 Jul 2017 |
| UmeshSingla | 25 | 06 Apr 2015 | 29 May 2018 |
| uglyrobot | 1 | 03 Nov 2015 | 03 Nov 2015 |
| jdailey | 19 | 22 Apr 2016 | 13 Jan 2020 |
| vanyukov | 25 | 31 Jul 2018 | 15 Jun 2022 |
| rickjc89 | 2 | 31 Aug 2020 | 17 Sep 2020 |
| danae39 | 4 | 05 Apr 2021 | 28 Jul 2021 |
| khaxan | 42 | 21 Jul 2022 | 06 Jul 2026 |
| panoslyrakis | 1 | 01 Apr 2026 | 01 Apr 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.
Very widely adopted: 1,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
11,100 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 81% 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 316,816/day07 Sep 2026
3 ratings left in the last 37 days, averaging 5.0 out of 5. Too few to compare against the lifetime average.
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 | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 316,816 | 32,245 | 34,518 | 16,185 | 8,295 | 7,657 | 22,661 | 12,671 | 13,953 | 9,796 | 7,121 | 5,767 | 5,732 |
| Ratings total | 6,050 | 6,050 | 6,050 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 | 6,051 |
| Support threads | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Threads resolved | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (1,000,000+) · version (4.3.2)
37 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 05 Dec 2008
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 24 Aug 2026, 14 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 2 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 8 other plugins, 7 of which were 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.
- 24 Aug 202614 days agoVersion 4.3.2 released
- 24 Aug 202614 days agoVersion 4.3.0 released
- 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.
- 06 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.2.0 released
- 06 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 4.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 12 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 01 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 18 May 20264 months agoVersion 4.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 21 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 4.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 01 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.24.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by panoslyrakis.
- 14 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 3.24.0-beta.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 04 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 3.23.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 04 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 3.23.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 19 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 3.23.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 26 Dec 20258 months agoVersion 3.23.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 08 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 3.23.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by khaxan.
- 06 Dec 200817 years ago150 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Dec 2008 and 20 Nov 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 05 Dec 200817 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 WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 14 days ago (24 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000,000+ active installs.
- It carries 6,051 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 2 of 2 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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