Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Simple Taxonomy Refreshed
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authornwjames
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 07 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record23
Rating5.0 /5 · 5
Added to directory16 Dec 2019
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP8.2
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by nwjames 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nwjames | 22 | 13 Jan 2020 | 04 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: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 40% 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 125/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 | — | 11 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · active installs (400+) · version (4.0.0) · 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 directory6.5 years ago 16 Dec 2019
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP8.2
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 07 Oct 2026, 32 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, 1 of which was 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.
- 07 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 4.0.0 released
- 04 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.4.1 released
- 07 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.4.0 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.
- 06 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 3.3.1 released
- 06 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 3.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 06 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 04 Apr 20242.5 years agoVersion 3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 11 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 3.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 11 Apr 20233.5 years agoVersion 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 17 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 24 Aug 20224 years agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 27 May 20224 years agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 15 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 2.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 25 Nov 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 05 Mar 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 05 Nov 20206 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nwjames.
- 13 Jan 20206.5 years ago7 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 13 Jan 2020 and 20 Oct 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 16 Dec 20196.5 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 nwjames for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (07 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 5 ratings, averaging 5.0 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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