Email Post Activation
by paulmac · Email & Marketing
Adds an iFrame to your blog footer to automatically activate any posts written by email.
41 health vs 63 average across 942 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 17+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1, 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 6304 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
50
now · peak 121
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 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-06 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2025-05-03 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-04-30 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2025-04-27 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-04-26 20+ → 10+ down after 125 days in tier
- 2024-12-22 10+ → 20+ up after 18 days in tier
- 2024-12-04 20+ → 10+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2024-11-23 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
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