Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
REST API Guard
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorSean Fisher
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release26 days ago 13 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record13
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory20 Oct 2022
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 Sean Fisher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sean212 | 11 | 20 Oct 2022 | 09 Sep 2025 |
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: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
16 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 49/day31 Oct 2026
Install band rose to 200+ on 30 Oct 2026, from 100+. 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 | — | 11 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 34 | 11 | 12 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 11 |
| Active installs | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 200+ | 100+ | 100+ | 100+ | 200+ | 200+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · version (1.5.0) · 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 directory4 years ago 20 Oct 2022
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP8.3
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Oct 2026, 27 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 28 Nov 2017.
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.
- 27 Oct 202612 days agoInstall band moved to 100+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Oct 202613 days agoInstall band moved to 200+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 13 Oct 202626 days agoVersion 1.5.0 released
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.4.2 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 100+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.
- 09 Sep 202514 months agoVersion 1.4.1 released
- 20 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 20 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 28 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 28 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 23 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 15 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 28 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 1.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 03 Nov 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 26 Oct 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 20 Oct 20224 years agoVersion 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by sean212.
- 20 Oct 20224 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 Sean Fisher for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 26 days ago (13 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ 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.
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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