Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

PushEngage – Web Push Notifications, WooCommerce Automation & Chat Widget

Name: PushEngage – Web Push Notifications, WooCommerce Automation & Chat Widget
Rating: 4.3 (37 reviews)
Author: Syed Balkhi

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs8,000+ rounded

Current authorSyed Balkhi

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release2 months ago 23 Sep 2026

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record91

Rating4.3 /5 · 37

Added to directory09 Jan 2016

Requires WP5.8

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Syed Balkhi 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
PushEngage	88	30 Jun 2016	02 Jul 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.

Moderately adopted: 8,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

143 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 24% 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 4,962/day31 Oct 2026

4.3

out of 5
37 ratings

5★30

4★0

3★0

2★1

1★6

Opinion is split: 81% rate it five stars and 16% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

3 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 5.0 out of 5. Too few to compare against the lifetime average.

Install band fell to 8,000+ on 29 Oct 2026, from 9,000+. 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	—	81	176	176	219	390	145	112	166	186	0	256	129	150
Ratings total	36	36	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Active installs	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	9,000+	8,000+	8,000+	8,000+

Unchanged throughout: version (4.2.11) · 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 directory10 years ago 09 Jan 2016

Requires WP5.8

Requires PHP7.4

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 23 Sep 2026, 46 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
The same account maintains 99 other plugins, 47 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.

23 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 4.2.11 released
11 Sep 20262 months ago
Version 4.2.10 released
25 Aug 20262 months ago
Version 4.2.9 released
02 Aug 20263 months ago
Install band moved to 9,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
02 Aug 20263 months ago
First 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.
02 Jul 20264 months ago
Version 4.2.8 released
26 Jun 20264 months ago
Version 4.2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
24 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 4.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
02 Jun 20265 months ago
Version 4.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
19 May 20266 months ago
Version 4.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
15 May 20266 months ago
Version 4.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
13 May 20266 months ago
Version 4.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
16 Mar 20268 months ago
Version 4.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
25 Nov 202511 months ago
Version 4.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
12 Nov 202512 months ago
Version 4.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
27 Aug 202514 months ago
Version 4.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
04 Aug 202515 months ago
Version 4.1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
28 Jul 202515 months ago
Version 4.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by PushEngage.
30 Jun 201610 years ago
75 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Jun 2016 and 09 Jul 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
09 Jan 201610 years ago
Added 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 Syed Balkhi for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 2 months ago (23 Sep 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 8,000+ active installs.
It carries 37 ratings, averaging 4.3 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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