Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
wp-Typography
Active installs10,000+ rounded
Current authorpepe
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 months ago 23 Feb 2025
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record112
Rating4.6 /5 · 70
Added to directory14 Jul 2009
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.7 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by pepe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| kingjeffrey | 38 | 16 Jul 2009 | 04 Jan 2011 |
| pputzer | 74 | 02 Dec 2015 | 23 Feb 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.
Widely adopted: 10,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
33 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 59/day29 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 10,000+ on 08 Aug 2026, from 20,000+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
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 | 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 | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 24 | 47 | 50 | 0 | 34 | 36 | 33 | 24 | 24 | 34 | 22 | 59 | 34 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (70) · active installs (10,000+) · version (5.11.0) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (0)
28 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 14 Jul 2009
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 552 days (1.5 years). The last was 23 Feb 2025.
- 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.
- 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 2 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 01 May 2023.
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.
- 17 Aug 202612 days agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-02-23). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 02 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 20,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 23 Feb 202518 months agoVersion 5.11.0 released
- 16 Dec 202420 months agoVersion 5.10.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 15 Dec 202420 months agoVersion 5.10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 22 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 5.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 21 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 5.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 25 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 5.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 24 Jan 20224.5 years agoVersion 5.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 10 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 5.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 10 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 5.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 22 May 20206 years agoVersion 5.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 24 Dec 20196.5 years agoVersion 5.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 21 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 5.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 11 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 5.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pputzer.
- 16 Jul 200917 years ago99 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 16 Jul 2009 and 02 Feb 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 14 Jul 200917 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 pepe for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 months ago (23 Feb 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 10,000+ active installs.
- It carries 70 ratings, averaging 4.6 out of 5.
- 0 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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