Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemap
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorJS Morisset
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last releaseyesterday 06 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating4.8 /5 · 4
Added to directory16 Nov 2021
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4.33
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by JS Morisset throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 25% 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 27/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 | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · active installs (400+) · version (8.4.0) · 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 directory4.5 years ago 16 Nov 2021
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4.33
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 06 Sep 2026, 1 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 30 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.
- 06 Sep 20262 days agoVersion 8.4.0 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.
- 16 Nov 20214.5 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 JS Morisset for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released yesterday (06 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 4 ratings, averaging 4.8 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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