Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
GR Widget – Google Reviews Widget
Active installs900+ rounded
Current authorGR Widget
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 29 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record11
Rating5.0 /5 · 10
Added to directory11 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by GR Widget 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grwidget | 7 | 11 Jul 2026 | 28 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: 900+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
153 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 181% 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 442/day31 Oct 2026
3 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 5.0 out of 5. Too few to compare against the lifetime average.
Install band rose to 900+ on 27 Oct 2026, from 800+. 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 | — | 47 | 47 | 35 | 73 | 60 | 49 | 33 | 22 | 56 | 49 | 105 | 442 | 362 |
| Active installs | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ | 900+ |
| Version | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.3 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (10) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)
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 directory4 months ago 11 Jul 2026
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 29 Oct 2026, 10 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- GR Widget 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.
- 29 Oct 202610 days agoVersion 1.2.3 released
- 28 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 1.2.2 released
- 18 Oct 202621 days agoInstall band moved to 800+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 1.2.1 released
- 10 Oct 202629 days agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Oct 202630 days agoVersion 1.2.0 released
- 30 Sep 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 31 Aug 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 28 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 1.1.2 released
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.1.1 released
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.1.0 released
- 09 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.0.3 released
- 08 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 40+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.
- 29 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.0.2 released
- 14 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grwidget.
- 11 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by grwidget.
- 11 Jul 20264 months 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 GR Widget for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 days ago (29 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 900+ active installs.
- It carries 10 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
- 1 of 1 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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