Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs4,000+ rounded
Current authorAnton Aleksandrov
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 days ago 20 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record16
Rating4.7 /5 · 32
Added to directory09 May 2019
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Anton Aleksandrov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| anton.aleksandrov | 16 | 03 Aug 2024 | 11 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.
63 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 1,242/day07 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 | 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 | — | 0 | 104 | 75 | 72 | 57 | 46 | 69 | 59 | 79 | 91 | 61 | 37 | 44 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (32) · active installs (4,000+) · version (1.8.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory7 years ago 09 May 2019
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 20 Aug 2026, 19 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 03 Mar 2022.
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.
- 20 Aug 202618 days agoVersion 1.8.0 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.
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.7.0 released
- 28 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.6.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 21 May 20264 months agoVersion 1.6.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 25 Jan 20267 months agoVersion 1.6.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 06 Dec 20259 months agoVersion 1.6.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 03 Sep 202512 months agoVersion 1.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 02 May 202516 months agoVersion 1.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 10 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 1.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 09 Mar 202518 months agoVersion 1.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 09 Feb 202519 months agoVersion 1.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 01 Feb 202519 months agoVersion 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 06 Dec 202421 months agoVersion 1.4.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 19 Nov 202422 months agoVersion 1.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by anton.aleksandrov.
- 03 Aug 20242 years ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 03 Aug 2024 and 03 Aug 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 09 May 20197 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 Anton Aleksandrov for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 days ago (20 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 4,000+ active installs.
- It carries 32 ratings, averaging 4.7 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
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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