Add Plain-Text Email
by Danny van Kooten · Email & Marketing
Adds a text/plain email to text/html emails to decrease the chance of emails being tagged as spam.
86 health vs 72 average across 419 Email & Marketing plugins
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
97
now · peak 184
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2023-11-25 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in band
- 2023-11-21 100+ → 90+ down after 18 days in band
- 2023-11-03 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-11-01 100+ → 90+ down after 308 days in band
- 2022-12-28 200+ → 100+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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LH Multipart Email 600+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags D -
WP Mail Logging 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Stop WP Emails Going to Spam 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Pixeline's Email Protector 800+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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