Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Watso – Basic Help Chat Button

Name: Watso – Basic Help Chat Button
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Hosteva

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs200+ rounded

Current authorHosteva

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release1 month ago 27 Sep 2026

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record6

Rating5.0 /5 · 1

Added to directory10 Jul 2025

Requires WP4.9

Requires PHP5.6

Version lag0 up to date

Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Hosteva 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
hosteva	4	20 Sep 2025	30 May 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.

Small but established: 200+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

10 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 45% 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 70/day31 Oct 2026

5.0

out of 5
1 rating

5★1

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★0

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	23	11	11	22	22	12	0	0	23	11	11	11

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (1) · active installs (200+) · 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 directory16 months ago 10 Jul 2025

Requires WP4.9

Requires PHP5.6

Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 27 Sep 2026, 42 days ago.
Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
Hosteva 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.

27 Sep 20261 month ago
Version 1.4.0 released
24 Sep 20261 month ago
Version 1.3.0 released
02 Aug 20263 months ago
First 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 May 20265 months ago
Version 1.2.0 released
13 May 20266 months ago
Version 1.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hosteva.
06 May 20266 months ago
Version 1.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hosteva.
20 Sep 202514 months ago
Version 1.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by hosteva.
10 Jul 202516 months ago
Added 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 Hosteva for all 91 days we have observed it.
It was last released 1 month ago (27 Sep 2026).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
WordPress.org reports 200+ 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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