Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Remove Category URL – Remove ‘category’ base from category permalinks
Active installs40,000+ rounded
Current authorThemeisle
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release20 days ago 19 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record13
Rating4.3 /5 · 61
Added to directory02 Jul 2014
Requires WP3.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
PluginsPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Themeisle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| valeriosza | 6 | 15 Jan 2015 | 24 Jun 2019 |
| themeisle | 6 | 23 Sep 2025 | 29 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.
Widely adopted: 40,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
435 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 73% 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 8,055/day31 Oct 2026
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 40,000+ on 15 Aug 2026, from 50,000+. 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 | — | 128 | 123 | 8,055 | 959 | 1,153 | 667 | 341 | 239 | 431 | 423 | 405 | 878 | 330 |
| Ratings total | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 |
| Version | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (40,000+) · 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 directory12 years ago 02 Jul 2014
Requires WP3.1
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 19 Oct 2026, 20 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 26 other plugins, 24 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.
- 19 Oct 202620 days agoVersion 1.2.5 released
- 20 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 1.2.4 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 50,000+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.
- 25 May 20265 months agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 25 May 20265 months agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 12 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 10 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 23 Sep 202514 months agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by themeisle.
- 24 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 21 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 14 Nov 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 17 Sep 201511 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 15 Apr 201511 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 15 Jan 201511 years agoVersion 0.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by valeriosza.
- 02 Jul 201412 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 Themeisle for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 20 days ago (19 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 40,000+ active installs.
- It carries 61 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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