Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Cite This Article – Author Box & Citation
Active installs10+ rounded
Current authorCiteKit
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 29 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record9
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory14 May 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
PluginsPedia 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
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
17 Oct 2026
Owner display name changed
“writerspress” → “CiteKit”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
16 Oct 2026
Owner display name changed
“CiteKit” → “writerspress”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
22 Aug 2026
Owner display name changed
“writerspress” → “CiteKit”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| writerspress | 3 | 14 May 2026 | 20 Aug 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: 10+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
13 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 32% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
11 Sep 2026peak 68/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 10+ on 23 Oct 2026, from 20+. 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 | 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 | — | 37 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 68 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 39 | 33 |
| Active installs | 20+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 20+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ |
| Version | 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.5 | 2.3.5 | 2.3.5 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)
91 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 directory6 months ago 14 May 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 29 Oct 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, 1 of which was updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 29 Oct 202610 days agoVersion 2.3.5 released
- 22 Oct 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Oct 202618 days agoVersion 2.3.4 released
- 19 Oct 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 17 Oct 202622 days agoVersion 2.3.3 released
- 17 Oct 202622 days agoOwner display name changed“writerspress” → “CiteKit”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 16 Oct 202623 days agoOwner display name changed“CiteKit” → “writerspress”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 30 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 2.3.2 released
- 14 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.3.1 released
- 23 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.2.0 released
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoOwner display name changed“writerspress” → “CiteKit”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 20 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.0.0 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 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.
- 15 May 20266 months agoVersion 1.1.0 released
- 14 May 20266 months agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by writerspress.
- 14 May 20266 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 CiteKit for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 days ago (29 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 10+ active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
- 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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