Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
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Active installs40+ rounded
Current authorHao Kexin
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release26 days ago 12 Oct 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record7
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory05 Mar 2020
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP8.2
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
19 Sep 2026
Owner display name changed
“Kexin HAO” → “Hao Kexin”. 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.
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 early-stage: 40+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.
6 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 31% 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 89/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.
Install band fell to 40+ on 03 Oct 2026, from 50+. 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 | — | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (40+) · version (2.3.3) · 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 directory6.5 years ago 05 Mar 2020
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP8.2
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 12 Oct 2026, 27 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- Hao Kexin publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
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.
- 12 Oct 202627 days agoVersion 2.3.3 released
- 12 Oct 202627 days agoVersion 2.3.1 released
- 03 Oct 20261 month agoVersion 2.1.1 released
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.1.0 released
- 21 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.1 released
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 2.0.0 released
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoReleased after a long silenceA new release arrived 2,371 days after the previous one (2020-03-23). A break in dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the release or the owner.
- 19 Sep 20262 months agoOwner display name changed“Kexin HAO” → “Hao Kexin”. 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.
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoInstall band moved to 50+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.
- 14 Sep 20215 years agoDormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2020-03-23). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
- 23 Mar 20206.5 years agoVersion 1.3.0 released
- 05 Mar 20206.5 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 Hao Kexin for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 26 days ago (12 Oct 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 40+ active installs.
What we don’t know yet
- Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
- 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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