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Mail Sender

by kaizendevelopments · Uncategorized

Simple plugin to fix the mail sender enveloppe and use the From: 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 58 average across 7,969 Uncategorized 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.15.

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.

31 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1937 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

-30% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

35

now · peak 90

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

Mail Sender · #13324 Flamingo · #81 FluentSMTP · #107 MW WP Form · #269

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈170

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
5.3y ago
Added
2021-03-28 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.9
Tested up to
5.7.15
Requires PHP
5.2.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-11-11 200+ → 100+ down after 33 days in band
  2. 2025-10-09 100+ → 200+ up after 124 days in band
  3. 2025-06-07 200+ → 100+ down after 51 days in band
  4. 2025-04-17 100+ → 200+ up

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Mail Sender: 100+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mail-sender