Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile
Active installs200,000+ rounded
Current authorElliot Sowersby / RelyWP
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 days ago 30 Oct 2026
Support23 / 39 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record103
Rating4.7 /5 · 262
Added to directory15 Oct 2022
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliotvs | 95 | 28 Oct 2022 | 27 Jul 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.
Very widely adopted: 200,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
23,707 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 610% 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 78,437/day31 Oct 2026
11 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 4.2 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.7 (2 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are running below the lifetime figure, which an average built over years would hide.
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 | — | 1,456 | 2,601 | 3,338 | 4,541 | 6,329 | 3,581 | 1,860 | 2,169 | 0 | 3,918 | 4,448 | 78,437 | 75,117 |
| Ratings total | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 262 |
| Version | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.0 | 1.44.1 | 1.44.3 | 1.44.4 |
| Support threads | 40 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 41 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 39 |
| Threads resolved | 26 | 26 | 30 | 30 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 23 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (200,000+)
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 15 Oct 2022
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 30 Oct 2026, 9 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 23 of 39 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 7 other plugins, 6 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
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.
- 30 Oct 20269 days agoVersion 1.44.4 released
- 29 Oct 202610 days agoVersion 1.44.3 released
- 28 Oct 202611 days agoVersion 1.44.1 released
- 29 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 1.44.0 released
- 17 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.43.2 released
- 11 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.43.1 released
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.43.0 released
- 07 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.42.3 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.
- 27 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.42.1 released
- 26 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 1.42.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 22 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.41.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 18 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.41.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 29 May 20265 months agoVersion 1.40.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 01 May 20266 months agoVersion 1.39.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 20 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.39.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 17 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.38.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 17 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.38.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 16 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.38.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 13 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.38.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 06 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 1.38.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 12 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 1.37.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Elliotvs.
- 28 Oct 20224 years ago82 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 28 Oct 2022 and 31 Dec 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 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 Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 8 days ago (30 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 200,000+ active installs.
- It carries 262 ratings, averaging 4.7 out of 5.
- 23 of 39 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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