Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
PublishPress Tag Groups: Stylish Displays For Your Tags and Categories
Active installs3,000+ rounded
Current authorPublishPress
Owner changesChanged hands once
Last release25 days ago 13 Oct 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record36
Rating4.8 /5 · 57
Added to directory19 Jun 2012
Requires WP5.5
Requires PHP7.2.5
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
PluginsPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by PublishPress since 08 Oct 2026, when it last changed hands. 1 ownership change on record since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
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
08 Oct 2026
Custody change, one of 2 plugins
Steve Burge → PublishPress. 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 08 Oct 2026.
Plugins in the same group: simple-tags
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| camthor | 17 | 23 Mar 2021 | 04 Aug 2022 |
| stevejburge | 8 | 02 Nov 2022 | 21 May 2026 |
| ojopaul | 3 | 12 Apr 2023 | 16 Jan 2025 |
| deji98 | 6 | 22 Jan 2025 | 23 Jul 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: 3,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
53 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 23% 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 1,684/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 | — | 58 | 49 | 48 | 92 | 105 | 82 | 37 | 67 | 57 | 57 | 46 | 62 | 45 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (57) · active installs (3,000+) · version (3.0.0) · 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 directory14 years ago 19 Jun 2012
Requires WP5.5
Requires PHP7.2.5
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Oct 2026, 26 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 13 other plugins, 13 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.
- 13 Oct 202626 days agoVersion 3.0.0 released
- 08 Oct 20261 month agoCustody change, one of 2 pluginsSteve Burge → PublishPress. 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts on 08 Oct 2026.
- 19 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.2.2 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.
- 23 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.2.1 released
- 25 Jun 20264 months agoVersion 2.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deji98.
- 21 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by stevejburge.
- 05 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by stevejburge.
- 27 Aug 202514 months agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deji98.
- 16 Apr 202519 months agoVersion 2.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deji98.
- 03 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 2.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deji98.
- 22 Jan 202522 months agoVersion 2.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by deji98.
- 16 Jan 202522 months agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ojopaul.
- 18 Dec 202423 months agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ojopaul.
- 13 Nov 20241.5 years agoVersion 2.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by stevejburge.
- 17 Jul 20242 years agoVersion 2.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by stevejburge.
- 12 Apr 20233.5 years agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by ojopaul.
- 23 Mar 20215.5 years ago21 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 23 Mar 2021 and 07 Apr 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 19 Jun 201214 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
- The wordpress.org account holding it changed once on 08 Oct 2026, to PublishPress.
- 2 plugins moved between the same two accounts in the same window.
- It was last released 25 days ago (13 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs.
- It carries 57 ratings, averaging 4.8 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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