Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Auto Upload Images
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authorAli Irani
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 20 Sep 2026
Support2 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record23
Rating4.3 /5 · 106
Added to directory13 Nov 2012
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Ali Irani 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| airani | 21 | 13 Nov 2012 | 16 Dec 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: 20,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
232 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 15% 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 6,566/day31 Oct 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 | 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 | — | 184 | 219 | 313 | 321 | 412 | 300 | 238 | 0 | 226 | 279 | 379 | 288 | 214 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (106) · active installs (20,000+) · version (3.4.1) · support threads (2) · threads resolved (2)
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 directory13 years ago 13 Nov 2012
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 20 Sep 2026, 49 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 2 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- Ali Irani 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.
- 20 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.4.1 released
- 13 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.4.0 released
- 13 Sep 20262 months agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 1,367 days after the previous one (2022-12-16). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 08 Jun 20242 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2022-12-16). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 16 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.2 released
- 06 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 10 Oct 20215 years agoVersion 3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 16 May 20197.5 years agoVersion 3.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 13 May 20197.5 years agoVersion 3.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 10 May 20197.5 years agoVersion 3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 12 Dec 20187.5 years agoVersion 3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 19 Mar 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 09 Apr 201610 years agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 07 Apr 201610 years agoVersion 3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 11 Jun 201511 years agoVersion 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 30 Mar 201511 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 20 Dec 201411 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by airani.
- 13 Nov 201213 years ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Nov 2012 and 28 Nov 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Nov 201213 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 Ali Irani for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (20 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 106 ratings, averaging 4.3 out of 5.
- 2 of 2 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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