Category Subscriptions
by Dan Collis-Puro · Email & Marketing
Allow registered users to subscribe to categories giving them control over delivery times (e.g. daily or weekly digests) and format (html or text).
41 health vs 65 average across 746 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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 5491 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
20
now · peak 62
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-02-25 20+ → 10+ down after 48 days in band
- 2024-01-08 10+ → 20+ up after 39 days in band
- 2023-11-30 20+ → 10+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B -
Subscribe2 – Form, Email Subscribers & Newsletters 10K+ installs · 3.5★ · 3 shared tags B -
Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
Post Status Notifier Lite 700+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
Manage Notification E-mails 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Disable auto-update Email Notifications 30K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags C
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