Gravity Forms Email Blacklist
by CrossPeak · Blocks
Also makes 2 other plugins · 13K+ installs across the portfolio →
Add-on for Gravity Forms to create a Blacklisting of specific emails or domains for the Email input field to throw a validation error or mark as spam.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
B 82/100
no flags
Active installs
10K+
≈19K estimated
Momentum
+14%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “mark” to your wp.org tags. You rank #17 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
82 health vs 71 average across 2,524 Blocks plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →9.2%
of downloads still active
At least 10K of 108.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Blocks plugin keeps 2.1%, across 1,579 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Blocks plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Well tuned across the board
Updated 155 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
4.3★ over 15 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
37
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| email blacklist your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| blacklist your tag | #2 | #5 | 0 |
| gravity | #4 | #7 | up 1 |
| gravity forms your tag | #5 | #8 | up 1 |
| block email your tag | #11 | #16 | 0 |
| gravity forms addon | #6 | #10 | 0 |
| multiple gravity forms | #6 | #8 | 0 |
| mark | #17 | #22 | 0 |
| gravity forms entries | #7 | #9 | 0 |
| gravity forms fields validation | #7 | #13 | 0 |
| forms to email | #8 | #18 | 0 |
| gravity forms fields | #8 | #10 | up 2 |
| email validation | #9 | #13 | down 1 |
| gravity forms add on | #9 | #11 | down 1 |
| email domains | #10 | #15 | — |
| email address validation | #10 | #15 | — |
| email spam | #20 | #22 | 0 |
| form email validation | #20 | #22 | down 1 |
| email block | #20 | #22 | down 5 |
49 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 19 listed. 30 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “mark” to your wp.org tags. You rank #17 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
- One page off on “block email”. #11 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 14K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
5mo ago
latest release · v2.6.2 · 29 May 2026
15
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 20 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.
Install history since 26 Jul 2021
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 2.6.2 Fix: Improve loading of SVG icon to prevent warning on some servers. 2.6.2
- — Version 2.6.1 Fix: Better handle invalid syntax in the blacklist rules and ignore it. 2.6.1
- — Version 2.6.0 Enhancement: Added support to treat submissions with blacklisted emails as spam. Enhancement: Added the ability to include * for wildcards anywhere in the blacklisted address or domain. 2.6.0
- — Version 2.5.6 Fix PHP error under PHP 8+ Fix with multiple email fields and different blacklists. 2.5.6
- — Version 2.5.5 Fixed version number issue 2.5.5
- — Version 2.5.4 Fixed validation function to remove any empty values for the array of blacklisted emails to prevent false positives from empty email fields. Added capability declination to the class to allow the plugin to work with role 2.5.4
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Add-on for Gravity Forms to create a Blacklisting of specific emails or domains for the Email input field t..."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gravity Forms.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,475 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "block email" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-03-02 9K+ → 10K+ up after 47 days in tier
- 2025-01-14 8K+ → 9K+ up after 45 days in tier
- 2024-11-30 10K+ → 8K+ down after 264 days in tier
- 2024-03-11 9K+ → 10K+ up after 141 days in tier
- 2023-10-22 8K+ → 9K+ up after 309 days in tier
- 2022-12-17 7K+ → 8K+ up after 104 days in tier
- 2022-09-04 6K+ → 7K+ up after 241 days in tier
- 2022-01-06 5K+ → 6K+ up
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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Gravity Forms Block Email Domains 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D -
CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration 800+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
Exact Match Disallowed Comment & Contact Forms 90+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Gravity Forms Zero Spam 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Advanced Custom Fields: Gravity Forms Add-on 30K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
Gravity PDF 20K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B
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