Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

WP Spell Check

Active installs2,000+ rounded
Current authorWP Spell Check
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 28 Sep 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record16
Rating2.9 /5 · 39
Added to directory19 Jun 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by WP Spell Check 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
wpspellcheck1501 Feb 202610 Aug 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.

Moderately adopted: 2,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.

33 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 12% 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 1,355/day31 Oct 2026
2.9
out of 5
39 ratings
5★1538%
4★410%
3★00%
2★13%
1★1949%

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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—23383546464736223345223634

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (39) · active installs (2,000+) · version (12.2) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)

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 directory11 years ago 19 Jun 2015
Requires WP6.0
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 28 Sep 2026, 41 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • WP Spell Check 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.

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. 28 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 12.2 released
  2. 10 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 12.1 released
  3. 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.
  4. 14 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 12.0 released
  5. 07 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 11.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  6. 30 Jun 20264 months ago
    Version 11.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  7. 23 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 11.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  8. 18 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 11.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  9. 11 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 11.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  10. 10 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 11.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  11. 02 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 11.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  12. 21 May 20266 months ago
    Version 11.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  13. 24 Apr 20267 months ago
    Version 11.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  14. 17 Mar 20268 months ago
    Version 11.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  15. 24 Feb 20268 months ago
    Version 10.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  16. 06 Feb 20269 months ago
    Version 10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpspellcheck.
  17. 01 Feb 20269 months ago
    1 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 01 Feb 2026 and 01 Feb 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  18. 19 Jun 201511 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.

What we know

  • It has been held by WP Spell Check for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 1 month ago (28 Sep 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 39 ratings, averaging 2.9 out of 5.
  • 1 of 1 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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