Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Hitsteps Web Analytics
Active installs700+ rounded
Current authorHitsteps
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 days ago 27 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record413
Rating3.9 /5 · 7
Added to directory19 Nov 2013
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHP5.3
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
PluginsPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Hitsteps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hitsteps | 410 | 20 Nov 2013 | 13 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: 700+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
94 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 227% 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 372/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 700+ on 22 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 | — | 22 | 34 | 22 | 34 | 33 | 23 | 22 | 50 | 148 | 244 | 80 | 72 | 45 |
| Active installs | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 800+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ |
| Version | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 5.99 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (7) · 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 directory12 years ago 19 Nov 2013
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHP5.3
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.
- Hitsteps 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.
- 27 Oct 202612 days agoVersion 6.0 released
- 24 Oct 202615 days agoVersion 5.99 released
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 5.98 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 5.96 released
- 09 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 5.95 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 800+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.
- 01 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 5.94 released
- 20 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 5.93 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 04 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 5.92 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 09 May 202518 months agoVersion 5.91 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 14 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 5.90 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 12 Jan 202522 months agoVersion 5.89 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 03 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 5.88 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 14 Oct 20233 years agoVersion 5.87 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 08 Oct 20233 years agoVersion 5.86 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 22 May 20233.5 years agoVersion 5.85 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 09 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 5.84 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 18 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 5.83 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 14 May 20224.5 years agoVersion 5.82 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hitsteps.
- 20 Nov 201312 years ago395 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 20 Nov 2013 and 06 May 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 19 Nov 201312 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 Hitsteps for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 days ago (27 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 700+ active installs.
- It carries 7 ratings, averaging 3.9 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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