Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorDavid Marín Carreño (DaveFX)
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 08 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record28
Rating4.3 /5 · 6
Added to directory17 Nov 2020
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
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
22 Aug 2026
Owner display name changed
“David Marín Carreño” → “David Marín Carreño (DaveFX)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DaveFX | 22 | 17 Nov 2020 | 17 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
19 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 16% 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 148/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 400+ on 28 Oct 2026, from 300+. 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 | — | 22 | 23 | 22 | 12 | 24 | 34 | 23 | 11 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 22 |
| Active installs | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 400+ | 300+ | 400+ | 400+ | 400+ | 400+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · version (20261008) · 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 directory5.5 years ago 17 Nov 2020
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHP8.0
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 08 Oct 2026, 32 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 5 other plugins, 3 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.
- 27 Oct 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Oct 202613 days agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 20261008 released
- 28 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 20260828 released
- 27 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 20260827 released
- 26 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 20260826 released
- 24 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 20260824 released
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 20260822 released
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoOwner display name changed“David Marín Carreño” → “David Marín Carreño (DaveFX)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 17 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 20260817 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 20260813 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 08 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 400+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.
- 28 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 20260728 released
- 22 May 20266 months agoVersion 20260522.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 22 May 20266 months agoVersion 20260522.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 22 May 20266 months agoVersion 20260522.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 21 May 20266 months agoVersion 20260521 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 21 May 20266 months agoVersion 20260522 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 22 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 20250325 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 04 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 20250204 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 03 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 20250203 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 30 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 20240319 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 30 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 20250130 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 28 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 20250127 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by DaveFX.
- 17 Nov 20205.5 years ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Nov 2020 and 27 Jan 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 17 Nov 20205.5 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 David Marín Carreño (DaveFX) for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (08 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 6 ratings, averaging 4.3 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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