Best WP SMTP Email
by ihmeraj · Email & Marketing
Best and the Easiest SMTP Plugin for WordPress.
41 health vs 63 average across 1,230 Email & Marketing plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.22, well behind 6.8.
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 2641 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
59
now · peak 154
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 2022-10-04 · 1,383 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
- S SMTP 700+ installs · 3.5★ · 4 shared tags D
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SMTP Mailer 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
Zoho Mail for WordPress 20K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Gmail SMTP 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
Simple SMTP 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags B -
SMTP by BestWebSoft 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags C
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