Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PixGrow Image Optimizer
Active installs90+ rounded
Current authorSantosh Gautam
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 03 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating4.0 /5 · 4
Added to directory21 Jun 2026
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Santosh Gautam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| iamsantoshg | 1 | 23 Jul 2026 | 23 Jul 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.
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.
8 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 55/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 90+ on 30 Oct 2026, from 80+. 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 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Ratings total | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Active installs | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 90+ | 90+ |
Unchanged throughout: version (1.1.0) · 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 directory5 months ago 21 Jun 2026
Requires WP5.6
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 03 Oct 2026, 36 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 21 Apr 2026.
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.
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 1.1.0 released
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 11 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 20+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.
- 23 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.0.2 released
- 21 Jun 20265 months 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 Santosh Gautam for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (03 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 90+ active installs.
- It carries 4 ratings, averaging 4.0 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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