Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WPAdverts – Classifieds Plugin
Active installs4,000+ rounded
Current authorGreg Winiarski
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release24 days ago 05 Aug 2026
Support3 / 7 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record86
Rating4.8 /5 · 160
Added to directory16 Aug 2015
Requires WP5.7
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Greg Winiarski 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gwin | 86 | 16 Aug 2015 | 05 Aug 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.
Moderately adopted: 4,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
53 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 43% 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 317/day29 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 | 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 | — | 47 | 123 | 109 | 160 | 98 | 57 | 81 | 0 | 73 | 61 | 55 | 53 | 45 |
| Support threads | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Threads resolved | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (160) · active installs (4,000+) · version (2.3.3)
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 directory11 years ago 16 Aug 2015
Requires WP5.7
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 05 Aug 2026, 25 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- 3 of 7 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 2 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 15 Sep 2025.
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.
- 05 Aug 202625 days agoVersion 2.3.3 released
- 02 Aug 202628 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.
- 02 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 2.3.2 released
- 13 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 02 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 05 Jan 20268 months agoVersion 2.2.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 08 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 2.2.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 01 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 2.2.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 13 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 2.2.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 07 Aug 202513 months agoVersion 2.2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 24 Jun 202514 months agoVersion 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 10 Jun 202515 months agoVersion 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 13 May 202516 months agoVersion 2.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 22 Apr 202516 months agoVersion 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 31 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by gwin.
- 16 Aug 201511 years ago72 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 16 Aug 2015 and 03 Feb 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 16 Aug 201511 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 Greg Winiarski for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 24 days ago (05 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 4,000+ active installs.
- It carries 160 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 3 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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