Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Weight Based Shipping for WooCommerce
Active installs50,000+ rounded
Current authorDan (weight based shipping)
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release23 days ago 16 Oct 2026
Support4 / 6 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record68
Rating4.6 /5 · 83
Added to directory25 Jul 2013
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.3
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
We track the wordpress.org account behind each plugin. An owner renaming themselves is recorded as a rename, never as a transfer. How ownership changes are detected
30 Sep 2026
Owner display name changed
“Dan” → “Dan (weight based shipping)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dangoodman | 63 | 23 Apr 2017 | 19 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.
Widely adopted: 50,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
893 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 70% 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 17,217/day31 Oct 2026
Install band fell to 50,000+ on 22 Aug 2026, from 60,000+. 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 | — | 940 | 1,987 | 1,489 | 1,353 | 1,589 | 998 | 576 | 424 | 788 | 783 | 469 | 2,628 | 583 |
| Support threads | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Threads resolved | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (83) · active installs (50,000+) · version (6.20.0)
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 directory13 years ago 25 Jul 2013
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.3
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 16 Oct 2026, 24 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 4 of 6 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 3 other plugins, 3 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.
- 16 Oct 202623 days agoVersion 6.20.0 released
- 04 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 6.19.0 released
- 30 Sep 20261 month agoOwner display name changed“Dan” → “Dan (weight based shipping)”. The wordpress.org account is unchanged, so this is the same owner relabelling themselves, not a transfer. Recorded as a fact; it carries no score weight.
- 28 Sep 20261 month agoVersion 6.18.0 released
- 08 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 6.17.0 released
- 21 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 6.16.1 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 60,000+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.
- 19 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 6.16.0 released
- 19 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 6.15.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 01 May 20266 months agoVersion 6.15.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 25 Apr 20266 months agoVersion 6.15.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 24 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 6.15.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 25 Feb 20268 months agoVersion 6.14.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 11 Feb 20269 months agoVersion 6.13.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 10 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 6.12.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 27 Dec 202510 months agoVersion 6.12.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 24 Dec 202510 months agoVersion 6.11.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 08 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 6.10.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 06 Nov 202512 months agoVersion 6.10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 28 Oct 202512 months agoVersion 6.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dangoodman.
- 23 Apr 20179.5 years ago50 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 23 Apr 2017 and 07 Oct 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 25 Jul 201313 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 Dan (weight based shipping) for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 23 days ago (16 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 50,000+ active installs.
- It carries 83 ratings, averaging 4.6 out of 5.
- 4 of 6 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
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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