HTP SMTP – WP Mail SMTP, Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun and Any SMTP Connector Plugin
by HuTaNaTu · Email & Marketing
HTP SMTP can help us to send emails via SMTP instead of the PHP mail() function.
45 health vs 65 average across 755 Email & Marketing plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6.0.12.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1504 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-08 · 1,378 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
44
now · peak 2.4K
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
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 124 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-07 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-28 20+ → 30+ up after 406 days in band
- 2025-02-15 30+ → 20+ down after 10 days in band
- 2025-02-05 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-02-04 30+ → 20+ down after 84 days in band
- 2024-11-12 40+ → 30+ down after 40 days in band
- 2024-10-03 30+ → 40+ up after 25 days in band
- 2024-09-08 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-09-06 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, Postmark, Google and Any SMTP Provider 600K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Mailgun for WordPress 80K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
SMTP Mailer 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Gmail SMTP 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
YaySMTP – WP Mail SMTP with Email Logs, Tracking & Reports 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Swift SMTP (formerly Welcome Email Editor) 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
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