Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Store Locator
Active installs50,000+ rounded
Current authorTijmen Smit
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last releaseyesterday 03 Sep 2026
Support6 / 7 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record67
Rating4.8 /5 · 312
Added to directory31 Dec 2013
Requires WP3.7
Requires PHPfalse
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 Tijmen Smit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| tijmensmit | 66 | 31 Dec 2013 | 25 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 50,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
720 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 71% 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 13,225/day05 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 | 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 | 05 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 186 | 723 | 177 | 13,225 | 2,159 | 1,165 | 658 | 550 | 1,553 | 888 | 679 | 710 | 0 |
| Version | 2.3.22 | 2.3.22 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 | 2.3.23 |
| Support threads | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Threads resolved | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (312) · active installs (50,000+)
35 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 directory12 years ago 31 Dec 2013
Requires WP3.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Sep 2026, 2 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 6 of 7 support threads answered in the last two months.
- Tijmen Smit 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.
- 03 Sep 20262 days agoVersion 2.3.23 released
- 20 Aug 202616 days agoVersion 2.3.22 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 2.3.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 09 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 2.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 21 May 20264 months agoVersion 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 14 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 04 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 2.2.261 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 03 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 2.2.260 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 27 May 202515 months agoVersion 2.2.253 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 26 May 202515 months agoVersion 2.2.252 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 02 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.2.251 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 25 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 2.2.250 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 25 Nov 202421 months agoVersion 2.2.241 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 15 Sep 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.2.240 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tijmensmit.
- 31 Dec 201312 years ago53 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 31 Dec 2013 and 19 Apr 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 31 Dec 201312 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 Tijmen Smit for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released yesterday (03 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 50,000+ active installs.
- It carries 312 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 6 of 7 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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