Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
STAX Header Builder
Active installs200+ rounded
Current authorStaxWP
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release4.5 years ago 23 Feb 2022
Support0 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record27
Rating4.7 /5 · 9
Added to directory04 May 2018
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag1.2 behind
Tested up toWP 5.9.20 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by StaxWP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| seventhqueen | 26 | 04 May 2018 | 08 May 2020 |
| staxwp | 1 | 23 Feb 2022 | 23 Feb 2022 |
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: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
7 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 45% 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 21/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 200+ on 25 Oct 2026, from 300+. 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 | — | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Active installs | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 300+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ | 200+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · version (1.3.6) · support threads (1) · 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 directory8.5 years ago 04 May 2018
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag1.2 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 1,719 days (4.7 years). The last was 23 Feb 2022.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 5.9.20, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 12 releases.
- 0 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, 4 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.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 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.
- 17 Aug 20233 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2022-02-23). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 23 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.3.6 released
- 08 May 20206.5 years agoVersion 1.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 30 Aug 20197 years agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 29 Aug 20197 years agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 25 Jul 20197 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 14 Jun 20197 years agoVersion 1.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 25 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 23 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 21 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 15 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 15 Mar 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 21 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 21 Feb 20197.5 years agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by seventhqueen.
- 04 May 20188.5 years ago14 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 04 May 2018 and 19 Feb 2019. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 04 May 20188.5 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 StaxWP for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 4.5 years ago (23 Feb 2022).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 5.9.20; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 4.7 out of 5.
- 0 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What we don’t know yet
- No release in the 91 days we have been watching, so how often it ships cannot be said. Every further day of silence tells you more.
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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