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DM Confirm Email

by Michael · Email & Marketing

Also makes 1 other plugin · 800+ installs across the portfolio →

Protect your wordpress site with spam registration. DM Confirm Email requires new users to confirm their email addresses.

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.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+2%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “confirm”, “email” and “registration” 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.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 75/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 66 average across 2,124 Email & Marketing plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.4%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 22.4K lifetime downloads are still running, below 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.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
12.7y ago
Added
2013-08-23 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 8 reviews to 2016-08-30
Mixed PraiseFeature requestsCompatibility

Most reviewers say setup is simple and it does the job, while others hit limits: it doesn't cover WooCommerce registration, and one recent user says the confirmation email isn't going out at all.

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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4619 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 2/100

Tested up to WordPress 3.7.41; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 58/100

4.1★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 4.10★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4619 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+2% vs prior 30d
111 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 4K · peaks are release surges

1041 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.11 Nov 2026

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.

1K1 Nov 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

12.7y ago

latest release · v1.4 · 11 Mar 2014

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4 · 11 Mar 20141.3.1 · 16 Nov 20131.3 · 9 Sep 20131.2.1 · 25 Aug 20131.2 · 25 Aug 20131.1 · 24 Aug 20131.0 · 24 Aug 2013

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 12 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 1 May 2015

1001 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ kanthan
    10.2y ago

    not send conformation email only send common email .please help me

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  2. ★★★★★ kosteek
    10.9y ago

    Just what I needed. And it works flawlessly!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ Perfect Human Interface
    11.4y ago

    This looked like exactly what I needed but after installing and testing it I’ve found it doesn’t work with registration via WooCommerce, only through the default WordPress login/registration. This makes it rather pointless because the standard WordPress registration already sends a password to the user’s email address, meaning with this plugin installed a new user has to check their email twice in order to create and log in to a new account. When registering through WooCommerce forms (which REALLY needs email confirmation) this plugin simply does nothing. I see it’s been a year since an update so it would be nice if the developer could breathe new life into this as the simplicity and functionality of this plugin would be excellent if it only worked where it was useful.

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  4. ★★★★★ romancos
    12.2y ago

    Even though version info says its compatible up to WP 3.8.3 I can confirm that it works with WP 4.0 Great job!!!

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  5. ★★★★★ Nic
    12.2y ago

    Easy to setup! Here are some improvements: 1. allow (custom) shortcodes in email templates. because i already have some for email header and footer. 2. don’t wrap email template content in <p></p>. developer need their freedom 😉 3. support for a custom password. The user should have the option to define his password while registration. thank you!

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  6. ★★★★★ Esio Trot
    12.3y ago

    I have mandatory registration and like others I am plagued with spammer attempts to register. Many have Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, as to some of my subscribers, so I couldn’t block these. Installed it, and for the last two days it has been bliss. Since installation I have done some small alterations to the narrative, putting my own jaundiced comments. Here is a link to one screen shot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2xrvxf7a3pks3dx/Register_DM.png Thank you for a great program! [Moderator Note: Please ensure that you are embedding links correctly in your posts. Link corrected.]

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ codde
    12.5y ago

    I installed the plugin and I have to say it works absolutly fine! The configuration is very simple and you’re able to give the newly registered user some information in a welcome mail. Thanks for developing!

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  8. ★★★★★ COMVERJ
    12.8y ago

    Works reliably for us even with a few other login plugins. Good to see a nice atomic plugin that does what it says on the tin.

    Read on wp.org ↗

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

4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Protect your wordpress site with spam registration. DM Confirm Email requires new users to confirm their em..."
  • ! 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 3 headings and 3 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,690 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "security" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-11-14 200+ → 100+ down after 23 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-22 100+ → 200+ up after 11 days in tier
  3. 2025-10-11 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-10-09 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-10-08 200+ → 100+ down after 584 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-03 300+ → 200+ down after 516 days in tier
  7. 2022-10-04 400+ → 300+ down after 374 days in tier
  8. 2021-09-25 500+ → 400+ down after 208 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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