Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs700+ rounded
Current authorGlen Scott
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 years ago 19 Aug 2019
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record26
Rating4.9 /5 · 7
Added to directory13 Apr 2015
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.9 behind
Tested up toWP 5.2.30 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Glen Scott 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| glen_scott | 26 | 13 Apr 2015 | 19 Aug 2019 |
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: 700+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
11 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 20% 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 22/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 | — | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 13 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (7) · active installs (700+) · version (2.0.2) · 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 directory11 years ago 13 Apr 2015
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag1.9 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 2,638 days (7.2 years). The last was 19 Aug 2019.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.2.30, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 19 releases.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 30 Jun 2019.
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 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.
- 09 Feb 20215.5 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2019-08-19). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 19 Aug 20197 years agoVersion 2.0.2 released
- 31 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 30 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 1.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 30 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 12 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 06 Nov 20179 years agoVersion 1.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 13 Sep 20179 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 12 Aug 20179 years agoVersion 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 27 May 201610 years agoVersion 1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 04 Apr 201610 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 20 Nov 201510 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 20 Sep 201511 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 10 Aug 201511 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by glen_scott.
- 13 Apr 201511 years ago13 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Apr 2015 and 22 Jun 2015. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 13 Apr 201511 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 Glen Scott for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 7 years ago (19 Aug 2019).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.2.30; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 700+ active installs.
- It carries 7 ratings, averaging 4.9 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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