Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
RootsPersona
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorurryes
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release16 days ago 22 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record21
Rating4.6 /5 · 17
Added to directory19 Jan 2011
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
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 urryes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ed4becky | 14 | 15 Feb 2012 | 28 Jan 2023 |
| urryes | 2 | 15 Jun 2026 | 19 Jun 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
24 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 63% 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 286/day31 Oct 2026
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 | — | 22 | 22 | 11 | 23 | 67 | 256 | 33 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 46 | 22 |
| Version | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (17) · active installs (400+) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)
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 directory15 years ago 19 Jan 2011
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 22 Oct 2026, 17 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- urryes publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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.
- 22 Oct 202617 days agoVersion 4.3.0 released
- 15 Oct 202624 days agoVersion 4.2.4 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 4.2.2 released
- 06 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 4.2.1 released
- 28 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 4.2 released
- 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.
- 19 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 4.1 released
- 15 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by urryes.
- 28 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.7.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 12 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 3.7.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 08 Mar 20224.5 years agoVersion 3.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 09 Jan 20188.5 years agoVersion 3.7.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 19 Feb 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 07 Feb 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 29 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 04 Jan 20179.5 years agoVersion 3.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 26 Dec 20169.5 years agoVersion 3.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 19 Sep 201511 years agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 03 Aug 201511 years agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ed4becky.
- 15 Feb 201214 years ago3 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 15 Feb 2012 and 19 Jan 2015. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 19 Jan 201115 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 urryes for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 16 days ago (22 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 17 ratings, averaging 4.6 out of 5.
- 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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