Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Shared Albums for Google Photos
Active installs500+ rounded
Current authorJan Zeman
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 days ago 31 Oct 2026
Support2 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record40
Rating4.9 /5 · 10
Added to directory26 Jan 2026
Requires WP5.5
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Jan Zeman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| janzeman | 35 | 26 Jan 2026 | 14 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: 500+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
21 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 65% 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 200/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 500+ on 15 Oct 2026, from 400+. 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 | 35 | 35 | 33 | 58 | 34 | 33 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 35 | 12 |
| Version | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.3 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (10) · active installs (500+) · support threads (2) · threads resolved (2)
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 directory9 months ago 26 Jan 2026
Requires WP5.5
Requires PHP7.0
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 31 Oct 2026, 9 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 2 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- Jan Zeman 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.
- 31 Oct 20269 days agoVersion 2.5.3 released
- 16 Oct 202624 days agoVersion 2.5.2 released
- 16 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.5.1 released
- 14 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.5.0 released
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.6 released
- 14 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.5 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 300+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.
- 19 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.4 released
- 17 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 08 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 05 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 05 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 04 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 25 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 20 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 18 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 15 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 13 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 13 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 12 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by janzeman.
- 26 Jan 20269 months ago21 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 26 Jan 2026 and 12 Apr 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 26 Jan 20269 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 Jan Zeman for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 days ago (31 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 500+ active installs.
- It carries 10 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
- 2 of 2 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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