Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Embeds for YouTube
Active installs9,000+ rounded
Current authorEmbeds For YouTube Plugin Support
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 months ago 18 Apr 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record31
Rating4.2 /5 · 24
Added to directory13 Jan 2010
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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 Embeds For YouTube Plugin Support 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dartiss | 27 | 13 Jan 2010 | 15 Jan 2024 |
| Applian | 2 | 15 Feb 2013 | 26 Feb 2013 |
| codedart | 1 | 21 Jan 2016 | 21 Jan 2016 |
| squared | 1 | 18 Apr 2025 | 18 Apr 2025 |
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: 9,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
21 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 35/day07 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 9,000+ on 17 Aug 2026, from 10,000+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
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 | — | 24 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 33 | 22 | 22 | 33 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (24) · active installs (9,000+) · version (5.4) · 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 directory16 years ago 13 Jan 2010
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 18 Apr 2025, 508 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- Embeds For YouTube Plugin Support 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.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 10,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 18 Apr 202517 months agoVersion 5.4 released
- 15 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 5.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 19 Oct 20232.5 years agoVersion 5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 22 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 5.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 31 Oct 20223.5 years agoVersion 5.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 10 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 5.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 18 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 07 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 09 Apr 20206 years agoVersion 5.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 23 Oct 20196.5 years agoVersion 5.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 05 May 201610 years agoVersion 4.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 21 Jan 201610 years agoVersion 4.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by codedart.
- 08 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dartiss.
- 13 Jan 201016 years ago18 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Jan 2010 and 13 Nov 2015. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Jan 201016 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 Embeds For YouTube Plugin Support for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 months ago (18 Apr 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 9,000+ active installs.
- It carries 24 ratings, averaging 4.2 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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