Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorMilind More
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 days ago 01 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record13
Rating3.3 /5 · 7
Added to directory04 Feb 2014
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Milind More 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| milindmore22 | 12 | 20 Jan 2018 | 15 Oct 2024 |
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.
Small but established: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
18 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 473% 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 51/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 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 51 | 13 | 51 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Version | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (7) · active installs (100+) · 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 directory12 years ago 04 Feb 2014
Requires WP6.7
Requires PHP8.1
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 01 Sep 2026, 7 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- Milind More 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.
- 01 Sep 20266 days agoVersion 3.0.2 released
- 01 Sep 20266 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 686 days after the previous one (2024-10-15). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 08 Apr 20265 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-10-15). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 15 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 2.7.1 released
- 15 Oct 202423 months agoVersion 2.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 30 Jul 20215 years agoVersion 2.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 14 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 2.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 13 Dec 20205.5 years agoVersion 2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 30 Jun 20206 years agoVersion v2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 05 Sep 20197 years agoVersion 2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 25 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 24 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 24 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 20 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 20 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by milindmore22.
- 04 Feb 201412 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 Milind More for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 days ago (01 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 7 ratings, averaging 3.3 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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