Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
URL Shortener
Active installs80+ rounded
Current authorGerald Yeo
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release11 years ago 14 Feb 2015
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record20
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory26 Oct 2009
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.0 behind
Tested up toWP 3.1.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by Gerald Yeo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| geraldyeo | 20 | 03 Nov 2009 | 13 Jun 2011 |
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.
Very early-stage: 80+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
3 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 16/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 80+ on 21 Oct 2026, from 90+. 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 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Active installs | 90+ | 80+ | 90+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ | 80+ |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · version (4.0.2) · 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 directory17 years ago 26 Oct 2009
Requires WP2.7
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag4.0 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- No release in 4,285 days (11.7 years). The last was 14 Feb 2015.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 3.1.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 40 releases.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 01 Dec 2010.
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 agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 19 Oct 202620 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 18 Oct 202621 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 16 Oct 202623 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 12 Oct 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 11 Oct 202628 days agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 08 Oct 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 26 Sep 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 90+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.
- 07 Aug 201610 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2015-02-14). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 14 Feb 201511 years agoVersion 4.0.2 released
- 13 Jun 201115 years agoVersion 4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 13 Jun 201115 years agoVersion 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 20 Feb 201115 years agoVersion 3.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 01 Dec 201015 years agoVersion 3.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 11 Sep 201016 years agoVersion 3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 12 Jul 201016 years agoVersion 3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 14 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 14 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 01 Feb 201016 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 28 Jan 201016 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 21 Dec 200916 years agoVersion 1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 19 Dec 200916 years agoVersion 1.6.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by geraldyeo.
- 03 Nov 200917 years ago7 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 03 Nov 2009 and 17 Dec 2009. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 26 Oct 200917 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 Gerald Yeo for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 11 years ago (14 Feb 2015).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 3.1.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 80+ active installs.
- It carries 2 ratings, averaging 5.0 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.
- 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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