Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Private BuddyPress
Active installs70+ rounded
Current authorDennis
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release15 years ago 23 Jan 2011
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record5
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory06 Sep 2010
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Tested up toWP — not declared
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Ownership
Held by Dennis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIGALinux | 5 | 08 Sep 2010 | 23 Jan 2011 |
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: 70+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
2 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 11/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 70+ on 30 Oct 2026, from 60+. 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Active installs | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 60+ | 70+ | 70+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · version (1.0.4) · 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 directory16 years ago 06 Sep 2010
Requires WPfalse
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag—
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 5,768 days (15.8 years). The last was 23 Jan 2011.
- Does not declare which WordPress version it has been tested against. A field the author sets themselves, so it is left blank rather than reported wrong.
- The same account maintains 3 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 20 Dec 2013.
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.
- 13 Oct 202626 days agoInstall band moved to 60+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 70+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.
- 16 Jul 201214 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2011-01-23). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 23 Jan 201115 years agoVersion 1.0.4 released
- 14 Nov 201015 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by GIGALinux.
- 20 Sep 201016 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by GIGALinux.
- 08 Sep 201016 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by GIGALinux.
- 08 Sep 201016 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by GIGALinux.
- 06 Sep 201016 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 Dennis for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 15 years ago (23 Jan 2011).
- WordPress.org reports 70+ active installs.
- It carries 2 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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