Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Xerotact SHIELD-X Security
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorxerotact
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 days ago 16 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record34
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory27 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.2 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 xerotact 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| xerotact | 34 | 27 Jul 2026 | 16 Sep 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.
Very early-stage: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 76% 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 85/day27 Sep 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | 14 Sep | 15 Sep | 16 Sep | 17 Sep | 18 Sep | 19 Sep | 20 Sep | 21 Sep | 22 Sep | 23 Sep | 24 Sep | 25 Sep | 26 Sep | 27 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 54 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Version | 2.0.184 | 2.0.184 | 2.0.184 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 | 2.0.189 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
57 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 directory2 months ago 27 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 16 Sep 2026, 12 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.2, which is current.
- xerotact publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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.
- 16 Sep 202612 days agoVersion 2.0.189 released
- 13 Sep 202615 days agoVersion 2.0.184 released
- 13 Sep 202615 days agoVersion 2.0.182 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 13 Sep 202615 days agoVersion 2.0.183 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 12 Sep 202616 days agoVersion 2.0.181 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 01 Sep 202627 days agoVersion 2.0.180 released
- 01 Sep 202627 days agoVersion 2.0.179 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 27 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.175 released
- 27 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.171 released
- 26 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.170 released
- 21 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.169 released
- 17 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.167 released
- 15 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.166 released
- 14 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 2.0.163 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 12 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.151 released
- 11 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.148 released
- 11 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.149 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 09 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.91 released
- 09 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.90 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 06 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.84 released
- 04 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.81 released
- 02 Aug 20262 months 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.
- 31 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.54 released
- 31 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.53 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 30 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.46 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 29 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.30 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 29 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.38 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 28 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by xerotact.
- 27 Jul 20262 months ago7 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 27 Jul 2026 and 28 Jul 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Jul 20262 months 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 xerotact for all 57 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 days ago (16 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.2, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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