Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Bottom Menu
Active installs20,000+ rounded
Current authorJ4
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 23 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record27
Rating4.5 /5 · 23
Added to directory11 Nov 2020
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
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Ownership
Held by J4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| J4cob | 25 | 11 Nov 2020 | 17 Jan 2024 |
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: 20,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
96 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 24% 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 362/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 | — | 78 | 144 | 97 | 152 | 184 | 143 | 0 | 95 | 128 | 99 | 146 | 118 | 87 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (23) · active installs (20,000+) · version (2.3.0) · 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 directory5.5 years ago 11 Nov 2020
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHP5.6
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 23 Aug 2026, 77 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- The same account maintains 4 other plugins, 2 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.
- 27 Oct 202612 days agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2025-05-05). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 23 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 2.3.0 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.
- 05 May 202518 months agoVersion 2.2.4 released
- 17 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 2.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 17 Jan 20242.5 years agoVersion 2.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 15 Mar 20233.5 years agoVersion 2.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 10 Jan 20233.5 years agoVersion 2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 09 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 02 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 01 Dec 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 17 Nov 20223.5 years agoVersion 2.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 27 Oct 20224 years agoVersion 2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 01 Aug 20224 years agoVersion 2.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 29 Jul 20224 years agoVersion 2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 06 Dec 20214.5 years agoVersion 1.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by J4cob.
- 11 Nov 20205.5 years ago13 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 11 Nov 2020 and 10 Oct 2021. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 11 Nov 20205.5 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 J4 for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (23 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs.
- It carries 23 ratings, averaging 4.5 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.
What can’t be known
- Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.
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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