Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

X3P0: Authors

Active installs80+ rounded
Current authorJustin Tadlock
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release8 months ago 23 Feb 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record2
Rating— no ratings yet
Added to directory30 Sep 2025
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.12 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Justin Tadlock 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
greenshady230 Sep 202523 Feb 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.

Very early-stage: 80+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

3 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.

11 Sep 2026peak 12/day31 Oct 2026
No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.

Install band fell to 80+ on 31 Oct 2026, from 90+. 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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—01100110001100110
Active installs80+80+80+90+90+90+90+90+90+80+90+90+90+80+

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · version (2.0.0) · 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 directory13 months ago 30 Sep 2025
Requires WP6.8
Requires PHP8.1
Version lag0.3 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 23 Feb 2026, 258 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.12, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
  • The same account maintains 35 other plugins; the most recent update to any of them was 24 Feb 2026.

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 Oct 202611 days ago
    Install band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  2. 27 Oct 202612 days ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  3. 21 Oct 202618 days ago
    Install band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  4. 16 Oct 202623 days ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  5. 12 Oct 202627 days ago
    Install band moved to 90+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  6. 10 Sep 20262 months ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  7. 06 Sep 20262 months ago
    Install band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  8. 05 Sep 20262 months ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  9. 04 Sep 20262 months ago
    Install band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  10. 30 Aug 20262 months ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  11. 05 Aug 20263 months ago
    Install band moved to 70+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  12. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    Install band moved to 80+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
  13. 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.
  14. 23 Feb 20268 months ago
    Version 2.0.0 released
  15. 30 Sep 202513 months ago
    Version 1.0.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by greenshady.
  16. 30 Sep 202513 months 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 Justin Tadlock for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 8 months ago (23 Feb 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.12; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 80+ 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.
  • 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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