Plugin profile · observed daily since 27 Sep 2026
Swatch – Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorWPPoland (Mariusz Szatkowski)
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release9 days ago 30 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record9
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory20 Sep 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
18 Oct 2026
Owner display name changed
“Mariusz Szatkowski” → “WPPoland (Mariusz Szatkowski)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| motylanogha | 3 | 20 Sep 2026 | 23 Sep 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: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
23 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 227% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
28 Sep 2026peak 40/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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 12 | 34 | 40 |
| Version | 1.0.18 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.19 | 1.0.19 | 1.0.19 | 1.0.19 | 1.0.21 | 1.0.21 | 1.0.24 | 1.0.25 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · active installs (0+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
35 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 directory2 months ago 20 Sep 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP8.1
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 30 Oct 2026, 10 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 27 other plugins, 27 of which were 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 27 Sep 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 30 Oct 202610 days agoVersion 1.0.25 released
- 29 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 1.0.24 released
- 27 Oct 202613 days agoVersion 1.0.21 released
- 23 Oct 202617 days agoVersion 1.0.19 released
- 18 Oct 202622 days agoOwner display name changed“Mariusz Szatkowski” → “WPPoland (Mariusz Szatkowski)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.18 released
- 29 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 1.0.17 released
- 27 Sep 20261 month 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 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.16 released
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by motylanogha.
- 20 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by motylanogha.
- 20 Sep 20262 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 WPPoland (Mariusz Szatkowski) for all 35 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 9 days ago (30 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, averaging 5.0 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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