Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
WP Voting Contest Lite
Active installs400+ rounded
Current authorMatt
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release3 months ago 31 Jul 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record27
Rating3.1 /5 · 15
Added to directory14 Jun 2018
Requires WP5.3.0
Requires PHP8.2
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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 Matt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mvincik | 20 | 14 Jun 2018 | 17 Nov 2023 |
| owtdevteam | 7 | 02 Aug 2024 | 31 Jul 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.
Small but established: 400+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
17 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 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 56/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 | — | 11 | 12 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 56 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (15) · active installs (400+) · version (6.0) · 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 directory8 years ago 14 Jun 2018
Requires WP5.3.0
Requires PHP8.2
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 31 Jul 2026, 100 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
- Matt 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.
- 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.
- 31 Jul 20263 months agoVersion 6.0 released
- 27 Feb 202520 months agoVersion 5.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 14 Feb 202521 months agoVersion 5.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 31 Dec 202422 months agoVersion 5.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 07 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 07 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 5.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 02 Aug 20242 years agoVersion 5.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by owtdevteam.
- 17 Nov 20232.5 years agoVersion 5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 28 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 23 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 23 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 02 Aug 20233 years agoVersion 4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 07 Jun 20233 years agoVersion 4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by mvincik.
- 14 Jun 20188 years ago14 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 14 Jun 2018 and 21 Feb 2023. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 14 Jun 20188 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 Matt for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 3 months ago (31 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs.
- It carries 15 ratings, averaging 3.1 out of 5.
- 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What we don’t know yet
- No release in the 91 days we have been watching, so how often it ships cannot be said. Every further day of silence tells you more.
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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