Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

CM Answers – Discussion Forum Plugin for WordPress Q&A

Active installs300+ rounded
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release26 days ago 13 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record10
Rating3.8 /5 · 86
Added to directory04 Mar 2013
Requires WP5.4.0
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.8 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by CreativeMindsSolutions 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
CreativeMindsSolutions916 Feb 202529 Jun 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.

Small but established: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

23 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 17% 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 145/day31 Oct 2026
3.8
out of 5
86 ratings
5★5564%
4★45%
3★33%
2★56%
1★1922%

Opinion is split: 64% rate it five stars and 22% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—2323221135022341112353411

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (86) · active installs (300+) · version (3.4.3) · 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 directory13 years ago 04 Mar 2013
Requires WP5.4.0
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.1 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 13 Oct 2026, 26 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
  • 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • The same account maintains 18 other plugins, 17 of which were 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.

  1. 13 Oct 202626 days ago
    Version 3.4.3 released
  2. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    First 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.
  3. 29 Jun 20264 months ago
    Version 3.4.2 released
  4. 22 May 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  5. 11 Sep 202514 months ago
    Version 3.3.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  6. 12 Jun 202517 months ago
    Version 3.3.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  7. 15 May 202518 months ago
    Version 3.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  8. 17 Apr 202519 months ago
    Version 3.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  9. 14 Apr 202519 months ago
    Version 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  10. 13 Mar 202520 months ago
    Version 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  11. 16 Feb 202521 months ago
    Version 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by CreativeMindsSolutions.
  12. 04 Mar 201313 years ago
    Added 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 CreativeMindsSolutions for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 26 days ago (13 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
  • It carries 86 ratings, averaging 3.8 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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