Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
SMNTCS Deactivate Image Compression
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorNiels Lange
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 27 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record14
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory10 Jul 2019
Requires WP2.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Niels Lange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nielslange | 12 | 10 Jul 2019 | 14 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: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
18 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady 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 439/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
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 | — | 12 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 34 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (1,000+) · version (2.3) · 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 directory7 years ago 10 Jul 2019
Requires WP2.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 27 Sep 2026, 42 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 22 other plugins, 20 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.
- 27 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 2.3 released
- 26 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 2.2 released
- 12 Sep 20262 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-03-21). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 14 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.1 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.
- 21 Mar 202520 months agoVersion 2.0 released
- 19 Oct 20242 years agoVersion 1.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 15 Oct 20233 years agoVersion 1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 03 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 29 May 20224 years agoVersion 1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 21 Apr 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 30 Dec 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 26 Apr 20215.5 years agoVersion 1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 03 May 20206.5 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 27 Dec 20196.5 years agoVersion 1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 10 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by nielslange.
- 10 Jul 20197 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 Niels Lange for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 1 month ago (27 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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