Plugin profile · observed daily since 20 Sep 2026
ARLing Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorARLing
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 03 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record8
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory07 Sep 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by ARLing throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 20 Sep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| arlingsk | 5 | 07 Sep 2026 | 09 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.
3 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 33% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
21 Sep 2026peak 37/day31 Oct 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 | 18 Oct | 19 Oct | 20 Oct | 21 Oct | 22 Oct | 23 Oct | 24 Oct | 25 Oct | 26 Oct | 27 Oct | 28 Oct | 29 Oct | 30 Oct | 31 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · version (0.4.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
42 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 07 Sep 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Oct 2026, 37 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- ARLing 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 20 Sep 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 03 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 0.4.2 released
- 26 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 0.4.0 released
- 24 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 0.3.0 released
- 20 Sep 20262 months agoFirst observed by PluginsPediaDaily 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.
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 0.2.1 released
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 0.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by arlingsk.
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 0.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by arlingsk.
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 0.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by arlingsk.
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 0.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by arlingsk.
- 07 Sep 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 ARLing for all 42 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (03 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, 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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