Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs1,000,000+ rounded
Current authorAutomattic
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 days ago 26 Aug 2026
Support3 / 3 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record125
Rating4.3 /5 · 1,345
Added to directory05 Nov 2007
Requires WP6.8
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 Automattic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| donncha | 105 | 06 Nov 2007 | 27 May 2026 |
| jeherve | 2 | 18 Dec 2014 | 27 Mar 2023 |
| dbtlr | 2 | 11 Jan 2017 | 27 Jul 2017 |
| kraftbj | 2 | 16 Aug 2022 | 14 Aug 2025 |
| jetpackisbestpack | 10 | 16 Sep 2022 | 11 Nov 2025 |
| thingalon | 3 | 02 Nov 2022 | 31 Jan 2023 |
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.
18,003 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 79% 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 510,841/day06 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 | 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 | 06 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 6,824 | 9,172 | 14,893 | 510,841 | 34,996 | 20,312 | 0 | 27,184 | 30,350 | 24,542 | 17,243 | 14,309 | 12,395 |
| Version | 3.1.1 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.3 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1,345) · active installs (1,000,000+) · support threads (3) · threads resolved (3)
36 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 directory18 years ago 05 Nov 2007
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Aug 2026, 12 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 3 of 3 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 77 other plugins, 30 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.
- 26 Aug 202612 days agoVersion 3.1.3 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.
- 27 May 20263 months agoVersion 3.1.1 released
- 14 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 3.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donncha.
- 11 Nov 202510 months agoVersion 3.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 10 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 3.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 14 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kraftbj.
- 10 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 04 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 31 Jan 202519 months agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donncha.
- 09 Jan 202520 months agoVersion 1.12.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by donncha.
- 10 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 27 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 09 May 20242 years agoVersion 1.12.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 11 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.12.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jetpackisbestpack.
- 06 Nov 200718 years ago111 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 06 Nov 2007 and 08 Nov 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 05 Nov 200718 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 Automattic for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 days ago (26 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 1,345 ratings, averaging 4.3 out of 5.
- 3 of 3 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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