Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Smart Variations Images & Swatches for WooCommerce
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorDavid Rosendo
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release20 days ago 19 Oct 2026
Support1 / 2 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record181
Rating4.7 /5 · 142
Added to directory10 Jul 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
20 Oct 2026
Owner display name changed
“RosendoLabs” → “David Rosendo”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| drosendo | 177 | 29 Apr 2016 | 21 May 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: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
66 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 63% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
12 Sep 2026peak 751/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 | — | 57 | 119 | 708 | 135 | 99 | 69 | 0 | 57 | 70 | 58 | 59 | 170 | 48 |
| Version | 5.2.37 | 5.2.37 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 | 5.2.38 |
| Support threads | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Threads resolved | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (142) · active installs (1,000+)
70 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 directory11 years ago 10 Jul 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 19 Oct 2026, 20 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 1 of 2 support threads answered in the last two months.
- David Rosendo 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.
- 20 Oct 202619 days agoOwner display name changed“RosendoLabs” → “David Rosendo”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 19 Oct 202620 days agoVersion 5.2.38 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 5.2.37 released
- 13 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 5.2.35 released
- 11 Sep 20262 months agoReturned to the WordPress.org directoryThe plugin resumed returning data from the plugin API after a recorded closure. WordPress.org does not publish reasons for closures or reinstatements; none is asserted here.
- 10 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 5.2.34 released
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoRemoved from the WordPress.org directoryThe plugin stopped returning data from the plugin API for three consecutive daily passes. WordPress.org does not publish a reason when a plugin is closed; none is asserted here.
- 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 May 20266 months agoVersion 5.2.29 released
- 19 May 20266 months agoVersion 5.2.28 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 19 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 5.2.26 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 13 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 5.2.25 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 04 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 5.2.24 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 05 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 5.2.23 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 19 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 5.2.22 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 18 Nov 202512 months agoVersion 5.2.21 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 23 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 5.2.20 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 15 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 5.2.18 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 27 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 5.2.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 27 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 5.2.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 05 Feb 20242.5 years agoVersion 5.2.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by drosendo.
- 29 Apr 201610 years ago164 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 29 Apr 2016 and 07 Dec 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 10 Jul 201511 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 David Rosendo for all 70 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 20 days ago (19 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 142 ratings, averaging 4.7 out of 5.
- 1 of 2 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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