Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorArnan de Gans
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 months ago 28 Dec 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record40
Rating4.4 /5 · 28
Added to directory21 Feb 2017
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.11 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
08 Sep 2026
Owner display name changed
“Arnan” → “Arnan de Gans”. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| adegans | 40 | 24 Feb 2017 | 28 Dec 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.
Moderately adopted: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
18 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 53/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 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (28) · active installs (2,000+) · version (2.5.1) · 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 directory9.5 years ago 21 Feb 2017
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Dec 2025, 315 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.11, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, 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.
- 08 Sep 20262 months agoOwner display name changed“Arnan” → “Arnan de Gans”. 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.
- 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.
- 28 Dec 202510 months agoVersion 2.5.1 released
- 27 Dec 202510 months agoVersion 2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 31 Oct 202512 months agoVersion 2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 14 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 2.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 11 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 10 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 04 Mar 202520 months agoVersion 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 07 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 17 Jun 20242 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 08 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 20 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 31 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 05 Feb 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by adegans.
- 24 Feb 20179.5 years ago27 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 24 Feb 2017 and 03 Jan 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 21 Feb 20179.5 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 Arnan de Gans for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 months ago (28 Dec 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 28 ratings, averaging 4.4 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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