Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WooCommerce PayPal Payments
Active installs800,000+ rounded
Current authorWooCommerce
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release17 days ago 21 Oct 2026
Support29 / 45 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record96
Rating2.9 /5 · 583
Added to directory15 Oct 2020
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
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 WooCommerce 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| woothemes | 24 | 15 Oct 2020 | 31 Oct 2023 |
| automattic | 40 | 10 Nov 2020 | 04 Dec 2025 |
| wesleyjrosa | 3 | 22 Jul 2024 | 24 Sep 2024 |
| mattdallan | 1 | 10 Dec 2024 | 10 Dec 2024 |
| eduardoumpierre | 2 | 04 Feb 2025 | 17 Mar 2025 |
| jessepearson | 1 | 26 Mar 2025 | 26 Mar 2025 |
| tpaksu | 2 | 03 Apr 2025 | 08 Apr 2025 |
| diegocwp | 14 | 23 Apr 2025 | 04 Aug 2026 |
| mayishaa | 2 | 09 Dec 2025 | 12 Jan 2026 |
| daledupreez | 4 | 10 Feb 2026 | 31 Mar 2026 |
| malithsen | 1 | 19 May 2026 | 19 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.
Very widely adopted: 800,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
18,130 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 56% 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 235,948/day31 Oct 2026
10 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 3.8 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 2.9 (3 of them one or two stars). Recent ratings are running above the lifetime figure.
From recent reviews
What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 17 Jun 2026 and 09 Sep 2026: 18 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.
Reviewers overwhelmingly credit the support desk: 14 of 18 reviews from the past three months single out fast, effective help, and 4 of those specifically name support staffer Krystian for walking through configuration and debugging issues personally. Separately, 4 reviews describe the plugin itself as reliable and straightforward to set up, running for years with rare bugs. A smaller but pointed thread runs the other way: 2 of 18 reviews report payment or checkout failures, including declined cards and confirmation pages that never loaded, which they say cost them sales. Most reviews in this window focus on support interactions rather than the plugin's underlying payment behavior.
- 14 of 18 praise the support team's speed and follow-through in resolving issues. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
- 4 of 18 specifically name support staffer Krystian as key to resolving their issue. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- 4 of 18 describe the plugin itself as reliable and straightforward to set up. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- 2 of 18 report payment or checkout failures they say cost them sales. [1] [2]
Counted from the public review forum on 10 Sep 2026. The reviews are their authors’ own words and their own claims; the counts are ours.
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 | — | 2,683 | 5,829 | 5,732 | 7,525 | 235,948 | 23,855 | 12,206 | 0 | 12,448 | 18,430 | 14,752 | 56,865 | 12,208 |
| Ratings total | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 582 | 583 | 583 | 583 |
| Version | 4.1.3 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.3 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.0 |
| Support threads | 38 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 37 | 38 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 45 | 45 |
| Threads resolved | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (800,000+)
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 directory6 years ago 15 Oct 2020
Requires WP6.5
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 21 Oct 2026, 18 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 29 of 45 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 27 other plugins, 16 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.
- 21 Oct 202618 days agoVersion 4.2.0 released
- 09 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 4.1.3 released
- 04 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 4.1.2 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.
- 07 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 4.1.1 released
- 23 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 4.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by diegocwp.
- 19 May 20266 months agoVersion 4.0.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by malithsen.
- 27 Apr 20266 months agoVersion 4.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by diegocwp.
- 02 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 4.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by diegocwp.
- 31 Mar 20267 months agoVersion 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by daledupreez.
- 31 Mar 20267 months agoVersion 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by daledupreez.
- 05 Mar 20268 months agoVersion 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by daledupreez.
- 10 Feb 20269 months agoVersion 3.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by daledupreez.
- 12 Jan 202610 months agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mayishaa.
- 09 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mayishaa.
- 04 Dec 202511 months agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by automattic.
- 20 Oct 202513 months agoVersion 3.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by diegocwp.
- 15 Oct 20206 years ago80 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 15 Oct 2020 and 15 Oct 2025. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 15 Oct 20206 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
Media coverage
Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.
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 WooCommerce for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 17 days ago (21 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 800,000+ active installs.
- It carries 583 ratings, averaging 2.9 out of 5.
- 29 of 45 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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