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Email Subscribers – Group Selector

by Icegram · Email & Marketing

Also makes 8 other plugins · 64.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add-on for Email Subscribers plugin using which you can provide option to your users to select interested groups in the Subscribe Form.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

D 46/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

200+

≈300 estimated

Momentum

+19%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “email marketing”, “email newsletter form” and “email signup” 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 →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 77/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 66 average across 2,122 Email & Marketing plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.0%

of downloads still active

At least 200 of 21K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with 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.

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.5.1
Last updated
7.7y ago
Added
2015-09-26 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
4.9.35
Requires PHP
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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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

Updated 2802 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 10/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 63/100

4.3★ over 10 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2802 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+19% vs prior 30d
1031 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 124 · peaks are release surges

1241 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.31 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.

6201 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

7.7y ago

latest release · v1.5.1 · 1 Mar 2019

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.5.1 · 1 Mar 20191.5.0 · 17 May 20181.4.3 · 17 May 20181.4.2 · 18 Oct 20171.4.1 · 19 Jun 20171.4 · 19 Jun 20171.3.5 · 1 Jun 20171.3.4 · 11 May 20171.3.3 · 10 Mar 20171.3.2 · 2 Mar 20171.3.1 · 27 Oct 20161.3 · 2 Sep 2016

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.

v1.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈300

Crossed into this band 5 days ago and the previous band took 13 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 300.

Install history since 8 Dec 2015

2001 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Norman Cates
    7.8y ago

    This seems like a poorly thought out addition, in that it duplicates email addresses in the subscriber list depending on how many groups they belong to. Documentation is very difficult to find regarding associating groups with categories of posts.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ rustpunt
    8.5y ago

    This is a great feature that makes the Email Subscribers plugin even better.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ indiacityjobs2017
    8.6y ago

    I use Group Selector plugin with Email Subscriber. But when reader try to subscribe message display unexpected error occured. With only Email subscriber plugin they were able to subscribe succesfully.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ y4niv
    9.1y ago

    This adds some nice groups functionality to the email subscribers plugin, it can also be useful for creating another “Test” group for testing newsletters before sending them, thanks!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ dario
    9.6y ago

    Permette di scegliere i vari gruppi di abbonamento per le newsletters. Ottimo supporto.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ vulcainmm
    9.6y ago

    C’est en plein ce que nous avions besoin.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ sedelstein
    9.9y ago

    This plugin works with the Email Subscribers plugin and is excellent for what it does. I wanted a way to allow a user to subscribe to multiple lists at one time. This plugin allows that through the use of a shortcode based on your configuration in the Advanced Form menu area. It’s easy to set up and so far has worked flawlessly. The developer is extremely helpful and responsive. I highly recommend this plugin. I wanted to customize some of the on-screen text beyond what the Advanced Form configuration allows. The developer pointed me to a language customization plugin called Loco Translate. By setting up a plugin translation from English to English I was able to easily customize the text I was interested in. I suggest the developer add this to the FAQ. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by sedelstein. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by sedelstein. Reason: Update to original review This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by sedelstein. This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by sedelstein.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ★★★★★ val17
    10.4y ago

    This plugin is idiotic. It has a title Email Subscribers Advanced Form but the plugin is not advanced whatsoever. I can’t add new fields, can’t preview the form, can’t change the labels for the fields, can’t add styles. What is so advanced about it? Please explain to me.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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 136 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Czech 89%
Spanish (Spain) 50%
Japanese 28%
French (France) 23%
Turkish 23%
German 22%
Polish 22%
Romanian 22%
Russian 22%
English (Canada) 19%
Persian 19%
Tamil 19%
Ukrainian 19%
Azerbaijani 17%
Croatian 17%
Danish 17%
Hebrew 17%
Italian 17%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 17%
Portuguese (Brazil) 17%
Serbian 17%
Catalan 16%
Chinese (China) 16%

Plus 112 more locales with partial translations.

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

3 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 "Add-on for Email Subscribers plugin using which you can provide option to your users to select interested g..."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 4 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,312 characters of description.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("Email Marketing", "email newsletter form", "email signup", "email widget", "group selection" missing).

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-10-27 300+ → 200+ down after 399 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-23 400+ → 300+ down after 313 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-14 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-12 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-11 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2024-11-09 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-11-08 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-11-06 400+ → 500+ up after 2 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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