Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Shortcode Preview Block

Name: Shortcode Preview Block
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)
Author: Ronak Ganatra

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum

Active installs900+ rounded

Current authorRonak Ganatra

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release10 days ago 29 Oct 2026

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record2

Rating3.7 /5 · 3

Added to directory24 Jul 2020

Requires WP6.3

Requires PHP7.2

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Ronak Ganatra throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

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: 900+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

65 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 490% 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 345/day31 Oct 2026

3.7

out of 5
3 ratings

5★1

4★0

3★2

2★0

1★0

Install band fell to 900+ on 22 Oct 2026, from 1,000+. 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	—	11	22	11	11	11	0	11	0	22	11	11	54	345
Active installs	1,000+	1,000+	1,000+	1,000+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+	900+
Version	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.0.0	1.1.0	1.1.0

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · 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 directory6 years ago 24 Jul 2020

Requires WP6.3

Requires PHP7.2

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 29 Oct 2026, 10 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
Ronak Ganatra 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.

29 Oct 202610 days ago
Version 1.1.0 released
29 Oct 202610 days ago
Released after a long silenceA new release arrived 819 days after the previous one (2024-08-01). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
02 Aug 20263 months ago
Install band moved to 1,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
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.
23 Jan 20269 months ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-08-01). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
01 Aug 20242 years ago
Version 1.0.0 released
24 Jul 20206 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 Ronak Ganatra for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 10 days ago (29 Oct 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 900+ active installs.
It carries 3 ratings, averaging 3.7 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.

What can’t be known

Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.

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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