Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PJ News Ticker
Active installs3,000+ rounded
Current authorPrimitiv Media
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release18 months ago 30 Apr 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating4.5 /5 · 6
Added to directory05 Jan 2017
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.0 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Primitiv Media throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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.
Moderately adopted: 3,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
18 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 24/day31 Oct 2026
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 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 24 | 22 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (3,000+) · version (1.9.8) · 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 05 Jan 2017
Requires WP4.6
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 558 days (1.5 years). The last was 30 Apr 2025.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.0, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- Primitiv Media 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.
- 22 Oct 202617 days agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-04-30). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 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.
- 30 Apr 202518 months agoVersion 1.9.8 released
- 05 Jan 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 Primitiv Media for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 18 months ago (30 Apr 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.0; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs.
- It carries 6 ratings, averaging 4.5 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.
- 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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