Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Download Monitor

Active installs80,000+ rounded
Current authorWP Chill
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 days ago 27 Oct 2026
Support5 / 5 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record209
Rating4.5 /5 · 525
Added to directory12 Mar 2008
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by WP Chill 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
jolley_small323 Jun 201330 Jun 2013
mikejolley1616 Jul 201304 Sep 2014
barrykooij3908 Jan 201508 Jun 2020
giucu911328 Jul 202131 Jan 2022
raldea897316 Feb 202224 Oct 2024
wpchill3322 Aug 202427 Oct 2025
altesin2219 Feb 202529 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: 80,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.

5,932 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 27,268/day31 Oct 2026
4.5
out of 5
525 ratings
5★43583%
4★316%
3★92%
2★92%
1★418%

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—8181,9831,51327,1334,4983,2091,5531,2002,4951,56525,3747,2492,089
Ratings total524524524524525525525525525525525525525525
Version5.3.45.3.45.3.45.3.55.3.55.3.55.3.55.3.55.3.55.3.55.3.65.3.65.3.65.3.6
Support threads65555555556555
Threads resolved65555554445555

Unchanged throughout: active installs (80,000+)

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 directory18 years ago 12 Mar 2008
Requires WP6.4
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 27 Oct 2026, 12 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • 5 of 5 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • The same account maintains 28 other plugins, 19 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. 27 Oct 202613 days ago
    Version 5.3.6 released
  2. 20 Oct 202620 days ago
    Version 5.3.5 released
  3. 14 Oct 202626 days ago
    Version 5.3.4 released
  4. 08 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 5.3.3 released
  5. 07 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 5.3.2 released
  6. 30 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 5.3.1 released
  7. 28 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 5.3.0 released
  8. 23 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 5.2.10 released
  9. 07 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 5.2.9 released
  10. 02 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 5.2.8 released
  11. 14 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 5.2.7 released
  12. 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.
  13. 27 Jul 20263 months ago
    Version 5.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  14. 16 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 5.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  15. 14 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 5.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  16. 14 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 5.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  17. 10 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 5.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  18. 07 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 5.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  19. 16 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 5.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  20. 10 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 5.1.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  21. 19 May 20266 months ago
    Version 5.1.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  22. 07 May 20266 months ago
    Version 5.1.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  23. 14 Apr 20267 months ago
    Version 5.1.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  24. 08 Apr 20267 months ago
    Version 5.1.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by altesin.
  25. 23 Jun 201313 years ago
    186 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 23 Jun 2013 and 20 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  26. 12 Mar 200818 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 WP Chill for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 12 days ago (27 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 80,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 525 ratings, averaging 4.5 out of 5.
  • 5 of 5 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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