Connect SendGrid for Emails
by WP Zone · Email & Marketing
Also makes 21 other plugins · 39K+ installs across the portfolio →
Connect SendGrid to your WordPress site to send emails using SendGrid's cloud-based email platform.
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Health
D 53/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
800+
≈880 estimated
Momentum
+72%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Slipping on “sendgrid”. Down 7 places since 2026-09-18, now #23. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
53 health vs 66 average across 2,121 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.8%
of downloads still active
At least 800 of 16.7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,295 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.
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.
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 816 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.6.11; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Last updated 816 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
31
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+1.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sendgrid your tag | #23 | #23 | down 7 |
| email marketing your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| email templates your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| smtp your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| transactional email your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Slipping on “sendgrid”. Down 7 places since 2026-09-18, now #23. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
- “email marketing”, “email templates” and “smtp” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.6K · 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
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
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.2y ago
latest release · v1.11.15 · 7 Aug 2024
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% 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 “800+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 57 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 900.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.1
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Connect SendGrid to your WordPress site to send emails using SendGrid's cloud-based email platform."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 14 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 14 of 14 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
- ! Headings and lists 2 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,009 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("Email Marketing", "email templates", "transactional email" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-09-05 900+ → 800+ down after 180 days in tier
- 2026-03-09 1K+ → 900+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-03-06 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-03-05 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-03 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-03-02 1K+ → 900+ down after 613 days in tier
- 2024-06-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 71 days in tier
- 2024-04-17 800+ → 900+ up after 3 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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FluentSMTP – WP Mail SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudflare, toSend, Gmail and Any SMTP 700K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Elastic Email Sender 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B -
SMTP for SendGrid – YaySMTP 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
iConvert Email Marketer 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Easily integrate SendGrid with your WordPress site 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Mesh SMTP – Easy WordPress SMTP & Email Delivery 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
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