Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Steady for WordPress
Active installs600+ rounded
Current authorSteady
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release25 days ago 14 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record24
Rating3.0 /5 · 10
Added to directory01 Dec 2017
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 Steady 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| steadybot | 9 | 30 Sep 2019 | 09 Mar 2020 |
| steadyhq | 13 | 24 Aug 2020 | 23 Oct 2024 |
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: 600+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
18 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 50% 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 367/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 600+ on 01 Oct 2026, from 700+. 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 | — | 22 | 36 | 22 | 58 | 59 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 23 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (10) · active installs (600+) · version (1.4.0) · 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 directory8.5 years ago 01 Dec 2017
Requires WP4.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 14 Oct 2026, 25 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- Steady 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.
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoVersion 1.4.0 released
- 14 Oct 202625 days agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 721 days after the previous one (2024-10-23). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 22 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Sep 20262 months agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 11 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 10 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 700+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 09 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 600+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 700+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.
- 16 Apr 20267 months agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2024-10-23). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 23 Oct 20242 years agoVersion 1.3.3 released
- 23 Oct 20242 years agoVersion 4f59508744ea153945bea8fc4c1208c6e5eadc04 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 09 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 9942c91bdbfe3871b12561f8b3ff63f63843b391 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 04 May 20233.5 years agoVersion b065b50d2e95617bef12845851a0042b1344616f releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 08 Nov 20224 years agoVersion 8977db51ed1ac348ccd2236c1e410f689540d8c9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 09 Aug 20224 years agoVersion 3ba3d59cb6b1f3b96b0a5cbaa6bcc5d43d8b7d97 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 21 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 24dbb2c7be4f3aff78ee19b883a0010aa4a83307 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 04 Jul 20224 years agoVersion b346b8a47d98bbbc03238d4e2a5ca3c84e5a3bec releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 01 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion aabc4cca8649e7e75105288dece7c3ab578857de releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 12 May 20215.5 years agoVersion ca0a276c2689438f217d4d363503f993fdf872e6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 04 Feb 20215.5 years agoVersion e701c2d954b718eeed0e88abccebdd5e02737a55 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 09 Oct 20206 years agoVersion 049fb961746a6ec128f4529b84eee63b547e613c releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 09 Oct 20206 years agoVersion 9ac4e94746248ff40e9537489d1c65c3d5194745 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by steadyhq.
- 30 Sep 20197 years ago10 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Sep 2019 and 24 Aug 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 01 Dec 20178.5 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 Steady for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 25 days ago (14 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 600+ active installs.
- It carries 10 ratings, averaging 3.0 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- 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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