Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Route ‑ Shipping Protection
Active installs500+ rounded
Current authorRoute
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release12 days ago 26 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record154
Rating4.3 /5 · 24
Added to directory29 Aug 2019
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.11 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Route 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| routedev | 150 | 29 Aug 2019 | 10 Sep 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: 500+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
87 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 121% 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 362/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 | — | 23 | 88 | 33 | 34 | 49 | 24 | 34 | 11 | 89 | 259 | 66 | 102 | 48 |
| Version | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.21 | 2.4.21 | 2.4.21 | 2.4.21 | 2.4.21 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (24) · active installs (500+) · 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 directory7 years ago 29 Aug 2019
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 26 Oct 2026, 13 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.11, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
- Route 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.
- 26 Oct 202613 days agoVersion 2.4.21 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 2.4.20 released
- 05 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 2.4.19 released
- 01 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 2.4.18 released
- 10 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.17 released
- 08 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.16 released
- 26 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.4.15 released
- 17 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.14 released
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.13 released
- 03 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.4.12 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.
- 21 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.11 released
- 02 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 30 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 2.4.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 11 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.4.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 28 May 20265 months agoVersion 2.4.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 19 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 14 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 08 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 04 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 30 Apr 20266 months agoVersion 2.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 17 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 13 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 24 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 2.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by routedev.
- 29 Aug 20197 years ago131 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 29 Aug 2019 and 19 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 29 Aug 20197 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 Route for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 12 days ago (26 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 500+ active installs.
- It carries 24 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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