Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy
Active installs700+ rounded
Current authorAmin Nazemi
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release23 months ago 28 Nov 2024
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating5.0 /5 · 3
Added to directory15 Dec 2020
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Tested up toWP 6.7.11 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Amin Nazemi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| aminnz | 2 | 11 Mar 2021 | 28 Nov 2024 |
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.
10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 13% 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 61/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 700+ on 27 Oct 2026, from 800+. 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 | — | 0 | 23 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 |
| Active installs | 800+ | 800+ | 700+ | 800+ | 800+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 800+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ | 700+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · version (1.0.1) · 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 directory5.5 years ago 15 Dec 2020
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0.4 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 711 days (1.9 years). The last was 28 Nov 2024.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.7.11, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 4 releases.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 04 Feb 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.
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.
- 26 Oct 202613 days agoInstall band moved to 800+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 23 Oct 202616 days agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 21 Oct 202618 days agoInstall band moved to 800+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 20 Oct 202619 days agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 800+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.
- 22 May 20266 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-11-28). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 28 Nov 202423 months agoVersion 1.0.1 released
- 11 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by aminnz.
- 15 Dec 20205.5 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 Amin Nazemi for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 23 months ago (28 Nov 2024).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 700+ active installs.
- It carries 3 ratings, 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.
- 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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