Protector – Malware Removal, Firewall & Core Repair

Ownership

Held by Marcello Ruoppolo 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.

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.

6 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.

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.

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (3) · active installs (200+) · version (4.0.4) · 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.

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.

1. 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.
2. 30 Apr 20266 months ago
   Version 4.0.4 released
3. 30 Apr 20266 months ago
   Version 3.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
4. 23 Apr 20267 months ago
   Version 4.0.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
5. 11 Apr 20267 months ago
   Version 4.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
6. 31 Mar 20267 months ago
   Version 4.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
7. 31 Mar 20267 months ago
   Version 4.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
8. 08 Feb 20269 months ago
   Version 2.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
9. 08 Feb 20269 months ago
   Version 2.7.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by marcelloruoppolome.
10. 07 Apr 20179.5 years 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.

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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