Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorAutomattic
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release13 days ago 26 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record262
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory15 Feb 2021
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Automattic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jboydston | 1 | 29 Mar 2021 | 29 Mar 2021 |
| newspack | 247 | 07 Apr 2021 | 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.
Moderately adopted: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
94 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 350/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | — | 35 | 23 | 36 | 132 | 294 | 58 | 33 | 44 | 104 | 295 | 59 | 71 | 49 |
| Version | 3.43.0 | 3.43.0 | 3.43.0 | 3.43.0 | 3.43.1 | 3.43.1 | 3.43.1 | 3.43.1 | 3.43.1 | 3.44.0 | 3.44.0 | 3.44.0 | 3.44.0 | 3.44.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (1,000+) · 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 directory5.5 years ago 15 Feb 2021
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Oct 2026, 13 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.
- The same account maintains 78 other plugins, 38 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.
- 26 Oct 202613 days agoVersion 3.44.0 released
- 21 Oct 202618 days agoVersion 3.43.1 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 3.43.0 released
- 12 Oct 202627 days agoVersion 3.42.0 released
- 06 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 3.41.5 released
- 28 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 3.41.4 released
- 24 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 3.41.2 released
- 15 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.41.1 released
- 14 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.41.0 released
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.40.3 released
- 01 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.40.2 released
- 31 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 3.40.1 released
- 20 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.39.5 released
- 17 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.39.3 released
- 13 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.5 released
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.4 released
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 05 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.2 released
- 04 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.1 released
- 04 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.38.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 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.
- 21 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.37.1 released
- 21 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.37.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 08 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.36.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 01 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.35.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 01 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.35.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 30 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 3.35.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 25 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 3.34.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 24 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.34.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 23 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.34.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 17 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.34.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 15 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.34.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by newspack.
- 29 Mar 20215.5 years ago231 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 29 Mar 2021 and 15 Jun 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 Feb 20215.5 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 Automattic for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 13 days ago (26 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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