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Force Login With Email

by MarcosAlexandre · Email & Marketing

Enable login in WordPress only with user e-mail address.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 65 average across 776 Email & Marketing plugins

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.

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

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2195 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-1% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

143

now · peak 262

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

Force Login With Ema · #12333 Duo Two-Factor Authe · #3904 Limit Login Attempts · #194 WPS Limit Login · #315

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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate
200–300 ≈250

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
1.0.5
Last updated
6.0y ago
Added
2020-07-13 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.4.19
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

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

No band crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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Force Login With Email: 200+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/force-login-with-email