Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
AI Chatbot for WooCommerce & Live Chat – onWebChat
Active installs700+ rounded
Current authoronWebChat
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 16 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record48
Rating4.7 /5 · 24
Added to directory22 Jun 2015
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by onWebChat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| onwebchat_dev | 47 | 22 Jun 2015 | 19 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.
Small but established: 700+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
32 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 19% 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 349/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 700+ on 11 Sep 2026, from 600+. 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 | — | 23 | 45 | 36 | 56 | 45 | 35 | 36 | 47 | 0 | 35 | 36 | 45 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (24) · active installs (700+) · version (3.10.0) · 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 directory11 years ago 22 Jun 2015
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHP5.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 16 Sep 2026, 53 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- onWebChat 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.
- 16 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.10.0 released
- 10 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.9.3 released
- 19 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.9.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 07 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.9.1 released
- 05 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.9.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 700+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.
- 13 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.8.4 released
- 09 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.8.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 08 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.8.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 08 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.8.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 05 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 02 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 29 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 3.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 25 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 3.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 12 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 19 May 20266 months agoVersion 3.5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 17 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 3.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by onwebchat_dev.
- 22 Jun 201511 years ago32 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 22 Jun 2015 and 17 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 22 Jun 201511 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 onWebChat for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (16 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 700+ active installs.
- It carries 24 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.
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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