Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Nginx Cache Controller
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorTakayuki Miyauchi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3.5 years ago 22 Nov 2022
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record38
Rating4.7 /5 · 15
Added to directory19 Oct 2011
Requires WP3.4
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.0 behind
Tested up toWP 6.1.16 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Takayuki Miyauchi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| miyauchi | 29 | 19 Oct 2011 | 24 Feb 2016 |
| wokamoto | 9 | 05 Jun 2012 | 22 Nov 2022 |
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.
93 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 26% 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 207/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 | — | 41 | 91 | 60 | 93 | 121 | 78 | 60 | 86 | 162 | 108 | 119 | 116 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (15) · active installs (1,000+) · version (3.3.4) · 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 directory15 years ago 19 Oct 2011
Requires WP3.4
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.0 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,448 days (4.0 years). The last was 22 Nov 2022.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.1.16, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 10 releases.
- The same account maintains 19 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 17 Oct 2018.
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 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.
- 15 May 20242.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2022-11-22). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 22 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 3.3.4 released
- 01 Nov 20197 years agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wokamoto.
- 31 Oct 20197 years agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wokamoto.
- 10 Apr 20188.5 years agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wokamoto.
- 10 Apr 20188.5 years agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wokamoto.
- 24 Feb 201610 years agoVersion 3.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 19 Jan 201511 years agoVersion 3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 20 Nov 201411 years agoVersion 3.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 04 Nov 201412 years agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 06 Oct 201412 years agoVersion 2.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 22 Sep 201412 years agoVersion 2.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 27 Aug 201412 years agoVersion 2.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 12 Jun 201412 years agoVersion 2.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by miyauchi.
- 19 Oct 201115 years ago25 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 19 Oct 2011 and 09 Apr 2014. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 19 Oct 201115 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 Takayuki Miyauchi for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3.5 years ago (22 Nov 2022).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.1.16; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 15 ratings, averaging 4.7 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.
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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