Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Email Before Download
Active installs5,000+ rounded
Current authorashokaggarwal
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 years ago 17 Jun 2024
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record25
Rating4.3 /5 · 44
Added to directory27 Jan 2011
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Tested up toWP — not declared
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Ownership
Held by ashokaggarwal 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.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| ashokaggarwal | 3 | 22 Mar 2011 | 16 May 2011 |
| mandsconsulting | 21 | 04 Mar 2016 | 23 Mar 2018 |
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.
38 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 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 69/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 5,000+ on 21 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 | — | 23 | 27 | 22 | 33 | 69 | 47 | 58 | 42 | 45 | 23 | 0 | 44 | 55 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (44) · active installs (5,000+) · version (6.9.8) · 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 directory15 years ago 27 Jan 2011
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 874 days (2.4 years). The last was 17 Jun 2024.
- Does not declare which WordPress version it has been tested against. A field the author sets themselves, so it is left blank rather than reported wrong.
- ashokaggarwal 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.
- 13 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.
- 12 Aug 20263 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.
- 09 Dec 202511 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-06-17). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 17 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 6.9.8 released
- 23 Mar 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 20 Mar 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 12 Mar 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 15 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 15 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 15 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 12 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 12 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 02 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 01 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 30 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 30 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 5.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mandsconsulting.
- 22 Mar 201115 years ago12 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Mar 2011 and 29 Jan 2018. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Jan 201115 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 ashokaggarwal for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 years ago (17 Jun 2024).
- WordPress.org reports 5,000+ active installs.
- It carries 44 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.
- 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.
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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