Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
NS Custom Placeholder Image for WooCommerce
Active installs90+ rounded
Current authorNsThemes
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3.5 years ago 24 Mar 2023
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record16
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory07 Feb 2017
Requires WP4.5
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 NsThemes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nsthemes | 16 | 14 Feb 2017 | 24 Mar 2023 |
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.
Very early-stage: 90+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 175% 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 18/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band fell to 90+ on 16 Oct 2026, from 100+. 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 | — | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (90+) · version (1.3.6) · 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 07 Feb 2017
Requires WP4.5
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.0 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,326 days (3.6 years). The last was 24 Mar 2023.
- 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 18 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.
- 12 Oct 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 100+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.
- 14 Sep 20242 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2023-03-24). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 24 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 1.3.6 released
- 04 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.3.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 05 Nov 20215 years agoVersion 1.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 27 Oct 20206 years agoVersion 1.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 01 Jun 20206 years agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 14 Nov 20196.5 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 23 Sep 20197 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 21 May 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 27 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 08 Jan 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 07 Jan 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 05 Jan 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 30 Aug 20188 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nsthemes.
- 14 Feb 20179.5 years ago3 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 14 Feb 2017 and 20 Oct 2017. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 07 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 NsThemes for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3.5 years ago (24 Mar 2023).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.1.16; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 90+ 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.
- 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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