Banana Newsletters
by Álvaro Franz · Uncategorized
A minimalistic solution to send newsletters from your dashboard, with a subscribers manager, HTML templates and a shortcode to display a subscription …
45 health vs 56 average across 15,837 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1018 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-12-03 · 1,322 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
22
now · peak 52
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-12-02 · 1,317 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Mailster WordPress Newsletter Plugin 8K+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag D -
MailMunch – Grow your Email List 6K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Newsletters 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Laposta Signup Basic 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
SendPress Newsletters 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag B -
Newspack Newsletters 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
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