Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Liteweight Podcast – run your podcast site without the bloat
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorbPlugins
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 26 Jul 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record7
Rating4.3 /5 · 9
Added to directory07 Mar 2019
Requires WP5.2
Requires PHP7.1
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.12 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by bPlugins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| abuhayat | 2 | 30 Jun 2019 | 21 Oct 2019 |
| shehabulislam | 4 | 27 Sep 2021 | 17 Feb 2025 |
| bplugins | 1 | 26 Jul 2026 | 26 Jul 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: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 42% 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 23/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 400+ on 28 Oct 2026, from 500+. 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 | — | 0 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Active installs | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 400+ | 400+ | 400+ | 400+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · version (2.2.7) · 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 directory7.5 years ago 07 Mar 2019
Requires WP5.2
Requires PHP7.1
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Jul 2026, 105 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.12, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- The same account maintains 105 other plugins, 101 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.
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.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 500+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.
- 26 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 2.2.7 released
- 17 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 2.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by shehabulislam.
- 16 Nov 20241.5 years agoVersion 2.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by shehabulislam.
- 08 Apr 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by shehabulislam.
- 27 Sep 20215 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by shehabulislam.
- 21 Oct 20197 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abuhayat.
- 30 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by abuhayat.
- 07 Mar 20197.5 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 bPlugins for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (26 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.12; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 9 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.
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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