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Email Subscription Popup — Newsletter & GDPR Consent

by Nks · Email & Marketing

Also makes 18 other plugins · 21.7K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add a newsletter signup popup to WordPress with a native Gutenberg block, GDPR consent checkbox, and free Mailchimp sync — no coding, set up in minute …

How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

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.

91 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 63/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-12% vs prior 30d
23Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

486

now · peak 3.3K

48730d downloads · Aug 26

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

Email Subscription P · #5508 you MailOptin · #1479 FireBox · #2664 MC4WP: Mailchimp for · #34

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.8Stars · Aug 26

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.

487per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

2

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v1.2.28

29

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.28 · 3mo ago1.2.27 · 3mo ago1.2.26 · 1.1y ago1.2.25 · 1.3y ago1.2.24 · 1.7y ago1.2.23 · 1.8y ago1.2.22 · 2.1y ago1.2.21 · 2.6y ago1.2.20 · 2.7y ago1.2.19 · 2.7y ago1.2.18 · 2.8y ago1.2.17 · 3.4y ago1.2.16 · 3.8y ago1.2.15 · 5.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 98%
v1.0 1.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.5K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-08-17 · 1,424 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2.28
Last updated
26d ago
Added
2015-03-16 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.2

Recent reviews

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  1. designbymorph
    7.2y ago

    Very responsive customer support. Does what you need it to. Thanks!

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  2. nngandhi
    8.2y ago

    I have just installed plugin and it is easy to configure. It is shown newsletter popup within few min. Thanks nks for such plugin..

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  3. rathipriya
    8.4y ago

    In Localhost it works but website becomes live, cannot able to mail the subscribers it shows an error “Unable to send email to newsletter subscribers.” Kindly rectify it

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  4. jomol
    9.0y ago

    Good This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by jomol.

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  5. Skytr
    9.6y ago

    Found this amazing plugin. Exactly what I was looking for. With brilliant support.

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  6. internetnewsalliance
    9.6y ago

    The pop-up function did work, however, apostrophes do not show up properly and no ascii codes seemed to work (minor inconvenience). My issue is that once a subscriber signs up, I see them in the plugin’s subscriber list, but there is nothing useful I can do with the data. There is no way to email them that I could find throughout my dashboard, nor is there an export function to be able to export the subscriber list… in order to add them as users in the Users area (which is what would actually be useful for me). All I can do, is ‘delete selected subscriber’. Anyways, not impressed, and not likely to consider the pro version. I wish there was a negative star option for ratings, as a 1 star rating is too high for this plugin in my opinion. Hopefully others experience will be better than mine, and/or that the plugin is extended to include more useful functions in future releases.

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  7. soytandem
    9.8y ago

    Easy to configure, only the necesary, and email data base inside wp. Great plugin!

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  8. lafrente
    10.4y ago

    needs a fix asap. right now its useless. otherwise one of the best and easy to use.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

7 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-10-22 CVE-2025-49912 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.26 Patched in 1.2.27
  2. 2025-01-24 CVE-2025-24587 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 1.2.23 Patched in 1.2.24
  3. 2024-11-18 CVE-2024-11195 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.22 Patched in 1.2.23
  4. 2024-03-13 CVE-2024-27960 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.20 Patched in 1.2.21
  5. 2023-12-15 CVE-2023-6555 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.19 Patched in 1.2.20
  6. 2023-12-05 CVE-2023-6527 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.18 Patched in 1.2.19
  7. 2023-04-07 CVE-2023-30489 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 1.2.17 Patched in 1.2.17

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Ukrainian 28%
Spanish (Spain) 7%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-21 2K+ → 1K+ down after 539 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-31 3K+ → 2K+ down

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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