Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Emoji Guard
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorPalasthotel GmbH
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release1 month ago 02 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory07 Aug 2020
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Palasthotel GmbH since 05 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
05 Oct 2026
Custody change, one of 20 plugins
EdwardBock → Palasthotel GmbH. 20 plugins moved between the same two accounts between 04 Oct 2026 and 05 Oct 2026.
Plugins in the same group: additional-authors, a-little-more-secure, blockx, content-relations, cron-logger, crowd, environment-info, future-monitor, grid, grid-avoid-doublets, grid-element-trash, grid-googlemaps-box, guest-user, headless, permalink-history, postqueue, post-to-mailchimp, process-log, reaction
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EdwardBock | 1 | 07 Aug 2020 | 07 Aug 2020 |
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 early-stage: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 50% 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 42/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | — | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (0+) · version (1.0.1) · 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 directory6 years ago 07 Aug 2020
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 02 Oct 2026, 37 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 21 other plugins, 16 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.
- 05 Oct 20261 month agoCustody change, one of 20 pluginsEdwardBock → Palasthotel GmbH. 20 plugins moved between the same two accounts between 04 Oct 2026 and 05 Oct 2026.
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.1 released
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 2,247 days after the previous one (2020-08-07). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 29 Jan 20224.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2020-08-07). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 07 Aug 20206 years agoVersion 1.0.0 released
- 07 Aug 20206 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 05 Oct 2026, to Palasthotel GmbH.
- 20 plugins moved between the same two accounts in the same window.
- It was last released 1 month ago (02 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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