Benchmark Email Lite

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

63 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 14 listed. 49 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3.2 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Sean Conklin, Pongos Interactive

   11.6y ago

   Benchmark Email is an excellent email marketing service that helps businesses and organizations with something to sell or a cause to promote get their message out to their loyal customers or constituents. While social media has been gaining relevance, email marketing remains the official method of communication with constituents. It is important to select a technology that fits your needs. Avoid the common pitfalls of non support, inability to track marketing statistics, unfriendly or overly complex user interfaces, and premium costs, by going with a well balanced solution such as this one. Call the California based staff to see just how good their support is.

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2. ★★★★★ Sean Conklin

   11.6y ago

   I am one of the developers of this plugin. Benchmark describes email marketing best on their home page: “Have something to sell, a cause to promote, a service to provide? You need email marketing to do things right. Create quality, eye-popping emails that work. Save time. Save money. Get your message out to the masses.” The businesses and organizations that need to reach out to their customers or constituents must choose a technology that fits their specific needs. Benchmark Email has the best support and user interface that I personally have ever seen, and at a very reasonable cost. They offer a free for life plan level as well. Consider this and the alternatives and what is better or worse about each option, details to consider include: – Email blasting deliverability and cap limits on sending directly from your web server with some alternatives – SMTP relaying (bulk) options won’t always catch duplicates, opt outs, or track valuable statistics such as soft versus hard bounces, open rates, link tracking, campaigns, etc. with some alternatives – Overly complex services can be difficult to use with some alternatives – Many solutions are more costly than Benchmark Email – Call customer support (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese) to ensure the support you need is available with the providers you evaluate – Benchmark and others offer a considerable nonprofit organization discount – Benchmark operates a generous affiliate program for small businesses and consultants to research products and share their precious client base – Benchmark uses USA based support staff during business hours

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3. ★★★★★ hartmutnz

   14.0y ago

   Installed with no problems, has good features BUT the free version only works for 30 days, then what? PAY. Otherwise the free version reverts to a catch: “The only catch is that you may only build your list with users who subscribe from your signup form.” This makes it a poor program if you get a lot of other contacts you want to send the newsletters to.. So I keep looking for something else, especially that the High Volume version costs a whopping $399 a month!! Crazy.. Thanks for reading, Groggo

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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (4.4.1). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 Benchmark Email Lite <= 4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via page_settings() ↗
   2024-04-08 CVE-2024-31360 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 4.1 Patched in 4.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

Translated into 127 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 103 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2023-08-04 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2023-08-03 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2023-07-31 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2204 days in tier
4. 2017-07-18 1K+ → 2K+ up

Competes with

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Benchmark Email Lite: 1K+ active installs, 4.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/benchmark-email-lite