Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally

Active installs400,000+ rounded
Current authorBrainstorm Force
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 24 Aug 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record46
Rating4.3 /5 · 62
Added to directory12 Aug 2017
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Brainstorm Force 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
Nikschavan1012 Aug 201704 Jul 2019
brainstormworg3503 Oct 201916 Jul 2026
patilvikasj112 Jul 202312 Jul 2023

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 widely adopted: 400,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

692 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 15% 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 1,529/day31 Oct 2026
4.3
out of 5
62 ratings
5★4979%
4★23%
3★23%
2★00%
1★915%

Opinion is split: 79% rate it five stars and 15% 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—4125936719721,529921554459806792733780717

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (62) · active installs (400,000+) · version (2.1.17) · 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 directory9 years ago 12 Aug 2017
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 24 Aug 2026, 76 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 33 other plugins, 33 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. 24 Aug 20262 months ago
    Version 2.1.17 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. 01 Dec 202511 months ago
    Version 2.1.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  4. 13 Jun 202517 months ago
    Version 2.1.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  5. 14 May 202518 months ago
    Version 2.1.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  6. 14 Apr 202519 months ago
    Version 2.1.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  7. 26 Mar 202519 months ago
    Version 2.1.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  8. 28 Jan 202521 months ago
    Version 2.1.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  9. 21 Jan 202522 months ago
    Version 2.1.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  10. 21 Jan 202522 months ago
    Version 2.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  11. 13 Nov 20241.5 years ago
    Version 2.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  12. 07 Oct 20242 years ago
    Version 2.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  13. 16 Jul 20242 years ago
    Version 2.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  14. 22 Apr 20242.5 years ago
    Version 2.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by brainstormworg.
  15. 12 Aug 20179 years ago
    33 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 12 Aug 2017 and 02 Apr 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  16. 12 Aug 20179 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 Brainstorm Force for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 2 months ago (24 Aug 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 400,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 62 ratings, averaging 4.3 out of 5.
  • 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.

What we don’t know yet

  • 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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