Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions

Active installs8,000+ rounded
Current authorCristián Lávaque
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release22 days ago 17 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record192
Rating4.1 /5 · 234
Added to directory22 Mar 2010
Requires WP4.2
Requires PHP5.6.2
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.2 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Cristián Lávaque 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
PriMoThemes8817 Apr 201024 Jan 2013
WebSharks2004 Feb 201309 Jan 2014
JasWSInc2629 Mar 201401 Aug 2016
raamdev308 Dec 201609 Jun 2017
clavaque4720 May 201914 Aug 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: 8,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

201 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 68% 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 3,008/day31 Oct 2026
4.1
out of 5
234 ratings
5★16470%
4★136%
3★83%
2★73%
1★4218%

Opinion is split: 70% rate it five stars and 18% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

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—2072663703072812071531541500198581174

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (234) · active installs (8,000+) · version (261017) · 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 directory16 years ago 22 Mar 2010
Requires WP4.2
Requires PHP5.6.2
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 17 Oct 2026, 23 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.2, which is current.
  • 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • The same account maintains 2 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 02 Jul 2025.

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. 17 Oct 202622 days ago
    Version 261017 released
  2. 11 Oct 202628 days ago
    Version 261011 released
  3. 01 Oct 20261 month ago
    Version 261001 released
  4. 27 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 260927 released
  5. 17 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 260917 released
  6. 13 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 260913 released
  7. 09 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 260909 released
  8. 29 Aug 20262 months ago
    Version 260829 released
  9. 14 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 260814 released
  10. 05 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 260805 released
  11. 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.
  12. 08 May 20266 months ago
    Version 260508 released
  13. 10 Apr 20267 months ago
    Version 260410 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  14. 25 Mar 20267 months ago
    Version 260325 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  15. 12 Mar 20268 months ago
    Version 260312 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  16. 01 Mar 20268 months ago
    Version 260301 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  17. 15 Feb 20269 months ago
    Version 260215 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  18. 28 Jan 20269 months ago
    Version 260127 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  19. 02 Jan 202610 months ago
    Version 260101 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  20. 05 Oct 202513 months ago
    Version 251005 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  21. 05 Sep 202514 months ago
    Version 250905 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  22. 01 Jul 202516 months ago
    Version 250701 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  23. 07 Jun 202517 months ago
    Version 250607 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  24. 25 May 202517 months ago
    Version 250525 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by clavaque.
  25. 17 Apr 201016 years ago
    169 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 17 Apr 2010 and 11 May 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  26. 22 Mar 201016 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 Cristián Lávaque for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 22 days ago (17 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.2, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 8,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 234 ratings, averaging 4.1 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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