Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
MachForm Shortcode
Active installs300+ rounded
Current authorLaymance Technologies
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 18 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating5.0 /5 · 4
Added to directory18 Aug 2013
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
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
14 Aug 2026
Owner display name changed
“Rick Laymance” → “Laymance Technologies”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rlaymance | 7 | 04 Sep 2014 | 14 Jan 2025 |
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: 300+ 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 20% 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 12/day31 Oct 2026
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 | — | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (4) · active installs (300+) · version (1.6.1) · 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 directory13 years ago 18 Aug 2013
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 18 Aug 2026, 82 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- Laymance Technologies 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.
- 18 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.6.1 released
- 14 Aug 20263 months agoOwner display name changed“Rick Laymance” → “Laymance Technologies”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.6 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 576 days after the previous one (2025-01-14). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 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.
- 08 Jul 20264 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-01-14). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 14 Jan 202522 months agoVersion 1.5.0 released
- 16 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 12 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 28 May 201610 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 09 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 13 Jan 201511 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 04 Sep 201412 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by rlaymance.
- 18 Aug 201313 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 Laymance Technologies for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (18 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
- It carries 4 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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