HumansNotBots – Easy, Accessible Email Cloaker
by zingming · Email & Marketing
"email AT address DOT com" (without quotes) is converted to a clickable version of [email protected] if JavaScript is enabled.
45 health vs 67 average across 617 Email & Marketing plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, well behind 6.8.
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 4584 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
24
now · peak 915
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-04-19 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-04-18 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-04-15 300+ → 200+ down after 470 days in band
- 2023-01-01 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2022-12-31 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2022-12-30 400+ → 300+ down after 13 days in band
- 2022-12-17 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2022-12-16 400+ → 300+ down 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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Stop WP Emails Going to Spam 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Pixeline's Email Protector 800+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
LH Multipart Email 600+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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