Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorzirkel.design
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release11 days ago 28 Oct 2026
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record12
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory19 Jun 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP8.3
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by zirkel.design since 29 Oct 2026, when it last changed hands. 1 ownership change on record since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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
29 Oct 2026
Custody change, one of 3 plugins
Daniel Sturm → zirkel.design. 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 29 Oct 2026.
Plugins in the same group: regex-validation-for-gravity-forms, zirkel-iban-for-woocommerce
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| d.sturm | 8 | 19 Jun 2026 | 12 Aug 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.
Small but established: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
26 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 69/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band rose to 100+ on 19 Oct 2026, from 90+. 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 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 56 | 69 | 36 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 45 | 47 | 11 |
| Active installs | 90+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ |
| Version | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.6.0 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · support threads (1) · 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 19 Jun 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP8.3
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 28 Oct 2026, 11 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 2 other plugins, 2 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 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.
- 29 Oct 202610 days agoCustody change, one of 3 pluginsDaniel Sturm → zirkel.design. 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 29 Oct 2026.
- 28 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 1.6.2 released
- 23 Oct 202616 days agoVersion 1.6.1 released
- 22 Oct 202617 days agoVersion 1.6.0 released
- 13 Oct 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 06 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 03 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 01 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 25 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 1.5.0 released
- 20 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 50+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 15 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 40+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 30+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 27 Aug 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 20+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.3.1 released
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.3.0 released
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by d.sturm.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 10+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.
- 01 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.2.2 released
- 01 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by d.sturm.
- 26 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by d.sturm.
- 26 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by d.sturm.
- 19 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by d.sturm.
- 19 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
- The wordpress.org account holding it changed once on 29 Oct 2026, to zirkel.design.
- 3 plugins moved between the same two accounts in the same window.
- It was last released 11 days ago (28 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- 0 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
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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