Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorWasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 28 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record54
Rating4.4 /5 · 89
Added to directory13 Aug 2015
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contest-Gallery | 46 | 15 Aug 2018 | 13 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.
Moderately adopted: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
186 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 746/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 | — | 140 | 650 | 173 | 0 | 125 | 128 | 91 | 71 | 122 | 104 | 231 | 685 | 0 |
| Version | 34.0.1 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.2 | 34.0.3 | 34.0.3 | 34.0.3 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (89) · active installs (1,000+) · 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 directory11 years ago 13 Aug 2015
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Oct 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer 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.
- 28 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 34.0.3 released
- 18 Oct 202621 days agoVersion 34.0.2 released
- 11 Oct 202628 days agoVersion 34.0.1 released
- 04 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 34.0.0 released
- 16 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 33.0.3 released
- 02 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 33.0.2 released
- 30 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 33.0.1 released
- 26 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 33.0.0 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 32.0.1 released
- 09 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 32.0.0 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 31.0.0 released
- 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.
- 20 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 30.0.7 released
- 10 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 30.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 09 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 30.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 26 Apr 20266 months agoVersion 29.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 21 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 29.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 06 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 28.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 18 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 28.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 18 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 28.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 03 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 27.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 30 Sep 202513 months agoVersion 27.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 20 Aug 202515 months agoVersion 26.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 25 Jul 202515 months agoVersion 26.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 04 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 25.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Contest-Gallery.
- 15 Aug 20188 years ago30 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 15 Aug 2018 and 27 Jan 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Aug 201511 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 Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 days ago (28 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 89 ratings, averaging 4.4 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.
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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