We’ll be sunsetting our Cart Recovery for WordPress and Cart Recovery for WordPress Pro plugins on 1st December 2026.
It’s been just over 10 years since we published the first version of our free Cart Recovery plugin for WordPress. In that time, the eCommerce market has grown substantially. We’ve not marketed the plugin aggressively, and while we still feel that the plugin is a great solution, the plugin never saw the uptake we hoped for and the work required to continually keep it updated and secure is no longer feasible given the income it generates.
Rather than compromise on the attention we put in to supporting, maintaining it and keeping it secure – we’ve made the decision to retire it altogether.
What this means for you
There will be no further updates to either plugin. After 1st December 2026, we won’t be releasing new features, bug fixes, or (this is the important one) security patches.
The free plugin will be closed on WordPress.org. It will no longer appear in search or be available for new installs. If you already have it installed, it will keep running, but you won’t see update notifications in your dashboard.
Running an unmaintained plugin indefinitely is a real security risk on any WordPress site, so please don’t treat “it still works” as “it’s still safe”.
For customers of the Pro plugin, v3.1 is intended as the final release. License and update checks are being switched off and there will be no further feature, or bug-fix releases. This final release removes automatic update and license-check features entirely, so the plugin will not attempt to contact our servers going forward.
We will continue to supply security releases manually up uptil the end of your paid license period as required.
What we recommend you do
You should stop using our free plugin on or before the sunset date (1st December 2026). You should stop using our Pro plugin before the end of your current license-period.
Plugins must be uninstalled from your site once you are no longer using them.
A note on security
We know abandoned plugins are a common target for the kind of hijacking that leads to malware being pushed to sites that trusted the original developer. To be clear: we are not selling, transferring, or handing off our plugins to anyone. We’re closing it directly, keeping control of the WordPress.org listing and our domain (for the interim period), and stripping any code that phones home to us, specifically so it can’t be used that way after we’ve stopped maintaining it.
In order to benefit from these protections you should upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible, and then remove the plugin entirely before the end of it’s supported period (1st December 2026 for the free plugin, your paid-for license period for the Pro add-on).
Failure to upgrade to the latest release and to remove the software once it is no longer supported may open your site up to security issues.
Questions
If you have any questions about these changes, feel free to reach out to our support team.