Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Clearfy Cache – WordPress optimization plugin, Minify HTML, CSS & JS, Defer
Active installs40,000+ rounded
Current authorCreativemotion
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4 months ago 23 Jul 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record51
Rating4.7 /5 · 339
Added to directory07 Sep 2017
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.11 WordPress is now on 7.1
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
Held by Creativemotion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| webcraftic | 13 | 13 Sep 2017 | 28 Apr 2019 |
| alexkovalevv | 32 | 04 Oct 2019 | 08 Apr 2025 |
| webtemyk | 1 | 22 Jul 2020 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| themeisle | 5 | 23 Sep 2025 | 23 Jul 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.
Widely adopted: 40,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
166 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.
11 Sep 2026peak 307/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 40,000+ on 12 Sep 2026, from 50,000+. 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 | 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 | — | 80 | 125 | 117 | 151 | 307 | 250 | 178 | 136 | 233 | 180 | 149 | 139 | 146 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (339) · active installs (40,000+) · version (2.4.3) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
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 directory9 years ago 07 Sep 2017
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 23 Jul 2026, 108 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.11, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- Creativemotion 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 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 50,000+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.
- 23 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.3 released
- 23 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 16 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 2.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 10 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 23 Sep 202514 months agoVersion 2.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 08 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 2.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 10 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 05 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 2.2.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 07 Oct 20242 years agoVersion 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 24 Sep 20242 years agoVersion 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 17 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 23 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 2.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 29 May 20233 years agoVersion 2.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by alexkovalevv.
- 13 Sep 20179 years ago38 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Sep 2017 and 22 Mar 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 07 Sep 20179 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 Creativemotion for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4 months ago (23 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 40,000+ active installs.
- It carries 339 ratings, averaging 4.7 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.
- No release in the 91 days we have been watching, so how often it ships cannot be said. Every further day of silence tells you more.
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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