Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PhotoJAR: Base
Active installs20+ rounded
Current authorunknown
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 years ago 04 Dec 2008
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record15
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory08 Jul 2008
Requires WP2.5.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Tested up toWP — not declared
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Ownership
Held by unknown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jarinteractive | 15 | 09 Jul 2008 | 04 Dec 2008 |
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: 20+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 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.
12 Sep 2026peak 13/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 20+ on 24 Sep 2026, from 10+. 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 | — | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (20+) · version (1.1) · 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 directory18 years ago 08 Jul 2008
Requires WP2.5.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 6,549 days (17.9 years). The last was 04 Dec 2008.
- Does not declare which WordPress version it has been tested against. A field the author sets themselves, so it is left blank rather than reported wrong.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 27 Sep 2008.
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 agoInstall band moved to 10+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.
- 28 May 201016 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2008-12-04). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 04 Dec 200817 years agoVersion 1.1 released
- 23 Nov 200817 years agoVersion 1.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 27 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 23 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 12 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 08 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 08 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0rc3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 05 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0RC2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 04 Sep 200818 years agoVersion 1.0RC1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 24 Aug 200818 years agoVersion 1.0b7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 22 Aug 200818 years agoVersion 1.0b6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 20 Aug 200818 years agoVersion 1.0b5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 20 Jul 200818 years agoVersion 1.0b4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by jarinteractive.
- 09 Jul 200818 years ago2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 09 Jul 2008 and 19 Jul 2008. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 08 Jul 200818 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 unknown for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 years ago (04 Dec 2008).
- WordPress.org reports 20+ 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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