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Events Manager – Email Users

by Stonehenge Creations · Booking & Events

Also makes 8 other plugins · 980+ installs across the portfolio →

Free add-on for Events Manager. Send fully customizable HTML emails to all bookings of a specific event per booking status.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-3%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “booking”, “email” and “events manager” 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 →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 69 average across 1,840 Booking & Events plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.8%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 12.6K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 944 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events 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

53/100

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.18.

Details

Version
4.8.2
Last updated
4.6y ago
Added
2014-08-15 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
5.4
Tested up to
6.0.18
Requires PHP
7.3

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.

48 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 5/100

Updated 1691 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 41/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.0.18; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 66/100

4.6★ over 12 reviews, smoothed to 4.20★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1691 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

-3% vs prior 30d
531 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 188 · peaks are release surges

1321 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

4.61 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.

1.3K1 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

4.6y ago

latest release · v4.8.2 · 16 Mar 2022

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.8.2 · 16 Mar 20224.8.1 · 5 Feb 20214.6.0 · 26 Mar 20204.5.1 · 15 Feb 20204.5.0 · 12 Feb 20204.4.0 · 15 Jan 20204.3.0 · 27 Dec 20194.1.3 · 28 Sep 2019

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.

v4.8 100%

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 6 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 6 Dec 2019

1001 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ cory100
    4.1y ago

    This plugin was very useful for us until the license lapsed. We’ve renewed twice, sent multiple emails, and received no response! The plugin is STILL NOT ACTIVE. Is this a dead plugin???

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  2. ★★★★★ Joel Scott
    5.6y ago

    I like this tool. I wish there was a “Test Email” button and a “Display Log” button to help troubleshoot SMTP problems

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  3. ★★★★★ snorklebum
    7.7y ago

    Thanks for taking over the running of this plugin, most of the new changes look good. I’d prefer it if my site email settings were used though (we use an api to link to a mailing host) and now need to have duplicated settings. Also I’ll need to remember to disable your plugin when I want to disable site emails which isn’t ideal compared to just having the one setting to change.

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  4. ★★★★★ Stonehenge Creations
    8.0y ago

    Adds the missing features to Events Manager. Easy to use.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ Terry Atkinson
    8.5y ago

    This plugin works well. I particularly like the flexible to email all bookings or just confirmed bookings or pending etc. It also has a raft of useful email settings – especially like BCC. Thanks Philippe!

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  6. ★★★★★ Mark
    10.8y ago

    I just spent the past week deciding on and configuring the $hit out of Events Manager only to discover it didn’t have the crucial feature to allow event hosts to mass email all members attending events to notify them of cancellations, changes, etc. This should absolutely be a standard core feature of Events Manager PRO. I’ve seen threads from years ago and the EM team still hasn’t implemented it. They said when I contacted them that it is on their list but no ETA. Hopefully they do so soon as I really believe this is a critical feature but for the interim I found your little gem of a plugin. In fact, the EM team even recommended I try it out. I’m surprised more people haven’t downloaded and use this. So far it seems to work great, albeit I haven’t tested with more than a few attendees. Seriously though, thanks for creating this, exactly what I needed!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ hypnomentalist
    10.9y ago

    I am using Events Manager for over a year now and this email feature perfectly adds to the functionality

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  8. ★★★★★ Lepalois
    11.4y ago

    Merci pour ce pluging qui fait défaut à EM. Fonctionne parfaitement bien.

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Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 4 languages, 2 at 90% or more

French (France) 100%
Japanese 100%
Dutch 81%
German 22%

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

7 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "Free add-on for Events Manager. Send fully customizable HTML emails to all bookings of a specific event per..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 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 3 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,890 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "smtp" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-01 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-29 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-28 200+ → 100+ down after 86 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-01 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-26 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-25 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-01-23 200+ → 100+ down after 22 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-01 100+ → 200+ up after 1 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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Events Manager – Email Users: 100+ active installs, 4.6★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/events-manager-email-users

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