Plugin profile · observed daily since 23 Aug 2026
CookieStart – CMP Banner & Cookie Consent
Active installs20+ rounded
Current authorcookiestart
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release24 days ago 17 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record5
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory21 Aug 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by cookiestart throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookiestart | 2 | 21 Aug 2026 | 23 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.
Very early-stage: 20+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 66% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
13 Sep 2026peak 51/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 20+ on 31 Oct 2026, from 10+. 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 | — | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Active installs | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 10+ | 20+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · version (1.2.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
70 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 directory3 months ago 21 Aug 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 17 Oct 2026, 24 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.
- cookiestart 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.
- 17 Oct 202624 days agoVersion 1.2.2 released
- 17 Oct 202624 days agoInstall band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 16 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 1.2.0 released
- 11 Oct 202630 days agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.1.5 released
- 26 Aug 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 10+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.1.4 released
- 23 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to fewer than 10Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 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.
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.1.3 released
- 21 Aug 20263 months 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 cookiestart for all 70 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 24 days ago (17 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 20+ active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, averaging 5.0 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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