Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Login Me Now – Passwordless, Magic Link, OTP & Social Login for WordPress
Active installs600+ rounded
Current authorBetterDots
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release11 days ago 28 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record38
Rating5.0 /5 · 9
Added to directory21 Jan 2023
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by BetterDots since 04 Sep 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
04 Sep 2026
Custody change, one of 2 plugins
HalalBrains → BetterDots. 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts between 03 Sep 2026 and 04 Sep 2026.
Plugins in the same group: boltaudit
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| heymehedi | 37 | 25 Jan 2023 | 31 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: 600+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
77 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 280% 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 244/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 600+ on 27 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 | — | 12 | 36 | 23 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 28 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 244 | 163 | 33 |
| Active installs | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 600+ | 600+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 500+ | 600+ | 600+ | 600+ | 600+ | 600+ |
| Version | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · 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 directory3.5 years ago 21 Jan 2023
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Oct 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, 1 of which was 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.
- 28 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 1.18.0 released
- 23 Oct 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Oct 202618 days agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 27 Sep 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 500+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 04 Sep 20262 months agoCustody change, one of 2 pluginsHalalBrains → BetterDots. 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts between 03 Sep 2026 and 04 Sep 2026.
- 31 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 1.17 released
- 27 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 1.16 released
- 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.
- 04 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 12 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 1.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 12 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 1.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 16 Nov 202512 months agoVersion 1.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 06 Nov 202512 months agoVersion 1.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 26 Oct 202512 months agoVersion 1.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 09 May 202518 months agoVersion 1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 14 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 27 Feb 202520 months agoVersion 1.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 27 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 1.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 29 Nov 202423 months agoVersion 1.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 08 Nov 20241.5 years agoVersion 1.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by heymehedi.
- 25 Jan 20233.5 years ago23 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Jan 2023 and 05 Sep 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 21 Jan 20233.5 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
- The wordpress.org account holding it changed once on 04 Sep 2026, to BetterDots.
- 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts in the same window.
- It was last released 11 days ago (28 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 600+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 5.0 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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