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PhotoPress

Sourceswordpress.org listingsupport forumauthor’s sitedonate
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorpadams
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 days ago 29 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record67
Rating3.7 /5 · 3
Added to directory18 Mar 2005
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by padams 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
isaacwedin1921 Mar 200509 Feb 2007
padams4022 Nov 201501 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: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

45 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 139% 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 188/day31 Oct 2026
3.7
out of 5
3 ratings
5★267%
4★00%
3★00%
2★00%
1★133%

Opinion is split: 67% rate it five stars and 33% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

Install band rose to 100+ on 18 Oct 2026, from 90+. 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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—1123421111232911111111141102
Version2.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.2.02.3.02.3.12.3.1

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (100+) · 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 directory21 years ago 18 Mar 2005
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 29 Oct 2026, 10 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • The same account maintains 7 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.

  1. 29 Oct 202610 days ago
    Version 2.3.1 released
  2. 29 Oct 202610 days ago
    Version 2.3.0 released
  3. 17 Oct 202622 days ago
    Install band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  4. 15 Oct 202624 days ago
    Version 2.2.0 released
  5. 14 Oct 202625 days ago
    Version 2.0.0 released
  6. 09 Oct 202630 days ago
    Version 1.9.0 released
  7. 07 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 1.7.3 released
  8. 06 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 1.7.1 released
  9. 06 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 1.6.0 released
  10. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    Install band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  11. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    First 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.
  12. 01 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 1.5.1 released
  13. 14 Dec 20214.5 years ago
    Version 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  14. 29 Aug 20215 years ago
    Version 1.4.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  15. 14 Aug 20215 years ago
    Version 1.4.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  16. 12 Feb 20215.5 years ago
    Version 1.4.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  17. 30 Dec 20205.5 years ago
    Version 1.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  18. 16 Nov 20205.5 years ago
    Version 1.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  19. 10 Nov 20205.5 years ago
    Version 1.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  20. 19 Oct 20206 years ago
    Version 1.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  21. 28 Sep 20206 years ago
    Version 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  22. 01 Sep 20206 years ago
    Version 1.3.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  23. 01 Sep 20206 years ago
    Version 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  24. 26 Aug 20206 years ago
    Version 1.3.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by padams.
  25. 21 Mar 200521 years ago
    46 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 21 Mar 2005 and 25 Aug 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  26. 18 Mar 200521 years ago
    Added 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 padams for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 9 days ago (29 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
  • It carries 3 ratings, averaging 3.7 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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