Change Admin Email
by johndeebdd · Email & Marketing
Also makes 1 other plugin · 40K+ installs across the portfolio →
Change the WordPress admin email without requiring email confirmation - perfect for development and testing environments.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
A 91/100
no flags
Active installs
40K+
≈50K estimated
Momentum
-5%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “change”, “email testing” and “test email” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4, #4 and #5 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
91 health vs 66 average across 2,124 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →8.2%
of downloads still active
At least 40K of 488.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,294 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Support resolution
Updated 15 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.8★ over 141 reviews, smoothed to 4.62★
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Mark more forum threads resolved — the resolved ratio feeds the ranking.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →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.
45
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
39%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-1.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| change admin email your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| admin email your tag | #2 | #2 | up 1 |
| change admin | #2 | #2 | — |
| email confirmation | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| email change | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| change | #4 | #4 | up 2 |
| outgoing email | #3 | #3 | up 1 |
| rollback your tag | #5 | #5 | 0 |
| confirmation email | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| change email | #2 | #1 | 0 |
| change from email | #2 | #2 | up 1 |
| admin | #6 | #5 | up 9 |
| email testing | #4 | #4 | 0 |
| test email | #5 | #5 | up 4 |
| confirmation | #10 | #6 | up 2 |
| without | #12 | #9 | down 2 |
| environments | #14 | #12 | down 2 |
| wordpress admin | #14 | #14 | up 2 |
| email your tag | #17 | #17 | up 1 |
| development | #16 | #16 | up 2 |
75 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 44 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “change”, “email testing” and “test email” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4, #4 and #5 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 31.3K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
15d ago
latest release · v5.0.2 · 18 Oct 2026
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 53% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “40K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 days ago and the previous band took 14 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 50K.
Install history since 28 Jan 2020
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 14 languages, 11 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →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.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,161 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "change_admin_email", "rollback" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-27 50K+ → 40K+ down after 420 days in tier
- 2025-09-02 40K+ → 50K+ up after 38 days in tier
- 2025-07-26 50K+ → 40K+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2025-07-16 40K+ → 50K+ up after 681 days in tier
- 2023-09-04 30K+ → 40K+ up after 335 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 20K+ → 30K+ up after 198 days in tier
- 2022-03-20 10K+ → 20K+ up after 384 days in tier
- 2021-03-01 7K+ → 10K+ up after 143 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Easy WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP and Email Logs: Gmail SMTP, Office 365, Outlook, Custom SMTP, and more 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Mail Logging 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and Themes 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Mailchimp for WooCommerce 200K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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