Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Read More WP

Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorBolton Studios LLC
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release20 days ago 18 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record3
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory02 Nov 2023
Requires WP4.0.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Bolton Studios LLC 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
BoltonStudios203 Aug 202423 May 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: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

47 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 57% 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 411/day31 Oct 2026
5.0
out of 5
1 rating
5★1100%
4★00%
3★00%
2★00%
1★00%

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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—7041112273083583645342311222
Version1.1.61.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.71.1.7

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · active installs (1,000+) · 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 directory3 years ago 02 Nov 2023
Requires WP4.0.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 18 Oct 2026, 21 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • The same account maintains 3 other plugins, 1 of which was 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.

  1. 18 Oct 202621 days ago
    Version 1.1.7 released
  2. 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.
  3. 23 May 20266 months ago
    Version 1.1.6 released
  4. 03 Aug 20242 years ago
    Version 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by BoltonStudios.
  5. 02 Nov 20233 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 Bolton Studios LLC for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 20 days ago (18 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 1 rating, 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.

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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