Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Virusdie | One-click website security
Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorVirusdie
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 04 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record28
Rating4.0 /5 · 9
Added to directory07 Nov 2021
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.6
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 Virusdie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| virusdie | 27 | 09 Nov 2021 | 04 Jun 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: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
27 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 84/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 | — | 23 | 40 | 34 | 23 | 46 | 11 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 23 | 33 | 33 | 35 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (9) · active installs (2,000+) · version (1.1.10) · 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 directory5 years ago 07 Nov 2021
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 04 Sep 2026, 65 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- Virusdie 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.
- 04 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 1.1.10 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.
- 04 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 1.1.9 released
- 30 Jan 20269 months agoVersion 1.1.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 30 Dec 202510 months agoVersion 1.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 12 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 03 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 1.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 11 Jul 202516 months agoVersion 1.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 21 Mar 20242.5 years agoVersion 1.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 26 Oct 20233 years agoVersion 1.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 13 Oct 20233 years agoVersion 1.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 26 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 07 Jul 20233 years agoVersion 1.0.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 12 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.0.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 02 Feb 20224.5 years agoVersion 1.0.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by virusdie.
- 09 Nov 20214.5 years ago14 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 09 Nov 2021 and 20 Jan 2022. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 07 Nov 20215 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 Virusdie for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (04 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
- It carries 9 ratings, averaging 4.0 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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