MailPoet Newsletters – Mandrill Spam and Bounce Cleaner
by chrismedina · Email & Marketing
Allows MailPoet users to easily unsubscribe or delete newsletter subscribers who have bounced, rejected, reported you for spam and more.
Health
D 44/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
-50%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “mailpoet email cleaner” and “newsletter spam delete” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
44 health vs 67 average across 2,111 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 4.8K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,287 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 7.1.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4200 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 7.1
3.7★ over 3 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4200 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →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.
31
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 22d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 22d
-0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mailpoet mandrill cleaner your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| mailpoet bounce cleaner your tag | #3 | #3 | 0 |
| mailpoet newsletter cleaner your tag | #19 | #16 | down 1 |
| mailpoet email cleaner your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| newsletter spam delete your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “mailpoet email cleaner” and “newsletter spam delete” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,494 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 152 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% 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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 12 months ago; the previous band took 15 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 27 May 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ HamishAhern9.8y ago
do not use. it breaks on javascript errors in the plugin code, it even breaks all other plugins… the errors is in the jquery ui F12 debugger you can see it, its same as this error, it needs to be fixed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13427834/jquery-ui-tabs-plugin-broke
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ MCD Diseño Web11.3y ago
Hola quiero agradecerte por el esfuerzo que has puesto en desarrollar este plugin es una buena herramienta para mantener limpio nuestro Mandrill Muchas gracias y espero que puedes seguir agregando nuevas funcionalidades. ¡FELICITACIONES! 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ joniamorebieta11.5y ago
Justo lo que necesitaba. thank you very much!
Read on wp.org ↗
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Allows MailPoet users to easily unsubscribe or delete newsletter subscribers who have bounced, rejected, re..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,062 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("mailpoet bounce cleaner", "mailpoet email cleaner", "mailpoet mandrill cleaner", "mailpoet newsletter cleaner", "newsletter spam delete" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-11-18 20+ → 10+ down after 449 days in tier
- 2024-08-26 30+ → 20+ down after 407 days in tier
- 2023-07-16 40+ → 30+ down after 242 days in tier
- 2022-11-16 50+ → 40+ down after 43 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 100+ → 50+ down after 1382 days in tier
- 2018-12-22 30+ → 100+ up
Competes with
The plugins that show up in the same WordPress.org searches, most shared searches first, then plugins sharing two or more tags. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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SMTPing Email Verifier — installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared searches B -
Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared search A -
oopspam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA) 6K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared search A -
WPBruiser Security – No CAPTCHA Anti-Spam & Login Protection 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared search A -
Gatekeep – Universal CAPTCHA & Anti-Spam for All Forms & Comments 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared search B
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