Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce
Active installs80,000+ rounded
Current authorEvan Herman
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 months ago 12 Apr 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record57
Rating4.4 /5 · 163
Added to directory16 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.8
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 Evan Herman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| liljimmi | 1 | 19 Dec 2014 | 19 Dec 2014 |
| eherman24 | 14 | 10 Jan 2015 | 12 Apr 2025 |
| yikesitskevin | 30 | 06 Dec 2016 | 20 Jun 2019 |
| fmixell | 8 | 12 Nov 2019 | 18 Sep 2020 |
| jpowersdev | 1 | 09 Dec 2020 | 09 Dec 2020 |
| yikesinc | 3 | 31 May 2022 | 28 Jun 2022 |
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: 80,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
86 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 176/day04 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 | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 71 | 79 | 110 | 73 | 176 | 121 | 80 | 59 | 74 | 89 | 135 | 73 | 92 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (163) · active installs (80,000+) · version (1.8.6) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
34 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 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 12 Apr 2025, 510 days ago.
- 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.
- The same account maintains 15 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 13 Dec 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.
- 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.
- 12 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 1.8.6 released
- 26 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.8.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 25 Sep 20232.5 years agoVersion 1.8.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 23 Jun 20233 years agoVersion 1.8.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 22 Mar 20233 years agoVersion 1.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 17 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 17 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by eherman24.
- 28 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.7.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yikesinc.
- 21 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.7.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yikesinc.
- 31 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.7.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by yikesinc.
- 09 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.7.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jpowersdev.
- 18 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fmixell.
- 10 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by fmixell.
- 19 Dec 201411 years ago44 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 19 Dec 2014 and 20 Aug 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 16 Dec 201411 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 Evan Herman for all 34 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 months ago (12 Apr 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 80,000+ active installs.
- It carries 163 ratings, averaging 4.4 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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