Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Custom Global Variables
Active installs5,000+ rounded
Current authoroden7777
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release21 days ago 17 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record5
Rating5.0 /5 · 10
Added to directory07 Apr 2016
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by oden7777 since 14 Oct 2026, when it last changed hands. 1 ownership change on record since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
14 Oct 2026
Custody change
akirak → oden7777.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| akirak | 4 | 08 Mar 2021 | 22 Mar 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.
Moderately adopted: 5,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
104 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 71% 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 1,820/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 5,000+ on 27 Aug 2026, from 6,000+. 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 | — | 1,820 | 189 | 110 | 146 | 125 | 82 | 46 | 0 | 74 | 77 | 97 | 311 | 122 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (10) · active installs (5,000+) · version (1.1.3) · 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 directory10 years ago 07 Apr 2016
Requires WP3.0.1
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 17 Oct 2026, 22 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- oden7777 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.
- 17 Oct 202622 days agoVersion 1.1.3 released
- 17 Oct 202622 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 1,305 days after the previous one (2023-03-22). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoCustody changeakirak → oden7777.
- 26 Aug 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 6,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 24 Aug 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 5,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 6,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 12 Sep 20242 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2023-03-22). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 22 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.1.2 released
- 09 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akirak.
- 08 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akirak.
- 08 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by akirak.
- 07 Apr 201610 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
- The wordpress.org account holding it changed once on 14 Oct 2026, to oden7777.
- It was last released 21 days ago (17 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 5,000+ active installs.
- It carries 10 ratings, 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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