Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Contextual Related Posts

Name: Contextual Related Posts
Rating: 4.8 (201 reviews)
Author: Ajay

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs50,000+ rounded

Current authorAjay

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release23 days ago 16 Oct 2026

Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months

Releases on record116

Rating4.8 /5 · 201

Added to directory21 Jan 2009

Requires WP6.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Ajay 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
Ajay	109	23 Jan 2009	18 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: 50,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.

672 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 70% 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 13,620/day31 Oct 2026

4.8

out of 5
201 ratings

5★184

4★9

3★2

2★2

1★4

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	—	730	1,176	1,127	1,032	1,201	0	1,151	0	465	485	863	1,368	372

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (201) · active installs (50,000+) · version (4.5.2) · 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 directory17 years ago 21 Jan 2009

Requires WP6.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 16 Oct 2026, 23 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 10 other plugins, 9 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.

16 Oct 202623 days ago
Version 4.5.2 released
10 Oct 202629 days ago
Version 4.5.1 released
02 Oct 20261 month ago
Version 4.5.0 released
19 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 4.4.2 released
05 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 4.4.1 released
29 Aug 20262 months ago
Version 4.4.0 released
17 Aug 20263 months ago
Version 4.3.1 released
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.
18 Jul 20264 months ago
Version 4.3.0 released
06 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 4.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
16 May 20266 months ago
Version 4.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
13 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 4.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
13 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 4.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
15 Feb 20269 months ago
Version 4.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
11 Jan 202610 months ago
Version 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
05 May 202518 months ago
Version 4.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
23 Apr 202519 months ago
Version 4.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
15 Apr 202519 months ago
Version 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
10 Apr 202519 months ago
Version 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
27 Jan 202521 months ago
Version 3.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
01 Jan 202522 months ago
Version 3.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Ajay.
23 Jan 200917 years ago
96 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 23 Jan 2009 and 23 Dec 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
21 Jan 200917 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 Ajay for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 23 days ago (16 Oct 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 50,000+ active installs.
It carries 201 ratings, averaging 4.8 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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