Plugin profile · observed daily since 01 Nov 2026
Variation Converter – Simple to Variable Products for WooCommerce
Active installsfewer than 10 rounded
Current authorCraig Pestell
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last releaseyesterday 13 Nov 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating5.0 /5 · 1
Added to directory27 Oct 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Craig Pestell throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 01 Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| craigpestell | 31 | 27 Oct 2026 | 11 Nov 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.
Very early-stage: fewer than 10 active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
73 downloads a day averaged over 13 days. WordPress.org reports a running download total; the gap between two days is that day’s downloads. Unlike the install figure it is exact and has no ceiling, so it shows movement the rounded band cannot. Too few days so far to say whether it is rising or falling.
02 Nov 2026peak 136/day14 Nov 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 | 01 Nov | 02 Nov | 03 Nov | 04 Nov | 05 Nov | 06 Nov | 07 Nov | 08 Nov | 09 Nov | 10 Nov | 11 Nov | 12 Nov | 13 Nov | 14 Nov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 101 | 36 | 11 | 30 | 90 | 133 | 119 | 136 | 99 | 51 | 66 | 54 | 23 |
| Ratings total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Version | 0.17.0 | 0.17.1 | 0.17.1 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.3.0 | 1.4.3 | 1.6.0 | 1.7.0 | 1.8.0 | 1.10.0 | 1.10.1 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (0+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
14 days of observation.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory19 days ago 27 Oct 2026
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 13 Nov 2026, 2 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- Craig Pestell 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 01 Nov 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 Nov 20262 days agoVersion 1.10.1 released
- 13 Nov 20262 days agoVersion 1.10.0 released
- 11 Nov 20264 days agoVersion 1.8.0 released
- 10 Nov 20265 days agoVersion 1.7.0 released
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.6.0 released
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.4.3 released
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 09 Nov 20266 days agoVersion 1.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 08 Nov 20267 days agoVersion 1.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 08 Nov 20267 days agoVersion 1.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 08 Nov 20267 days agoVersion 1.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 08 Nov 20267 days agoVersion 1.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 07 Nov 20268 days agoVersion 1.3.0 released
- 06 Nov 20269 days agoVersion 1.2.0 released
- 06 Nov 20269 days agoVersion 1.1.0 released
- 06 Nov 20269 days agoVersion 1.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 04 Nov 202611 days agoVersion 1.0.0 released
- 01 Nov 202614 days agoVersion 0.17.1 released
- 01 Nov 202614 days agoVersion 0.17.0 released
- 01 Nov 202614 days agoVersion 0.15.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 01 Nov 202614 days 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.
- 30 Oct 202616 days agoVersion 0.12.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 30 Oct 202616 days agoVersion 0.12.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by craigpestell.
- 27 Oct 202619 days ago9 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 27 Oct 2026 and 30 Oct 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 27 Oct 202619 days 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 Craig Pestell for all 14 days we have observed it.
- It was last released yesterday (13 Nov 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports fewer than 10 active installs.
- It carries 1 rating, 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.
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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