Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Product Variation Swatches for WooCommerce – Enhance Your Product Attributes with Elegant Color, Image, and Label Swatches
Active installs100+ rounded
Current authorPluginEver
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 24 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record22
Rating4.2 /5 · 5
Added to directory01 Sep 2019
Requires WP5.2
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by PluginEver 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pluginever | 21 | 28 Sep 2022 | 24 Aug 2026 |
| manikmist09 | 1 | 20 Nov 2022 | 20 Nov 2022 |
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: 100+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
5 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 27% 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 18/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 | — | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · active installs (100+) · version (2.2.1) · 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 directory7 years ago 01 Sep 2019
Requires WP5.2
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 24 Aug 2026, 76 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 12 other plugins, 12 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.
- 24 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 2.2.1 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.
- 21 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 2.2.0 released
- 07 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 2.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 17 May 20266 months agoVersion 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 19 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 11 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 2.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 25 Jan 20269 months agoVersion 2.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 24 Nov 202511 months agoVersion 2.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 23 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 2.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 06 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 2.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 21 Jul 202516 months agoVersion 2.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 20 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 27 Mar 202519 months agoVersion 2.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 26 Jan 202521 months agoVersion 2.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by pluginever.
- 28 Sep 20224 years ago8 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 28 Sep 2022 and 23 Jan 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 01 Sep 20197 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 PluginEver for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (24 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs.
- It carries 5 ratings, averaging 4.2 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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