Mailster Mailgun Integration
by EverPress · Email & Marketing
Also makes 27 other plugins · 117.1K+ installs across the portfolio →
Uses Mailgun to deliver emails for the Mailster Newsletter Plugin for WordPress.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
400+
≈500 estimated
Momentum
—
no download trend yet
Biggest opportunity: “mailgun”, “mailster” and “newsletter” 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.
45 health vs 66 average across 2,120 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.3%
of downloads still active
At least 400 of 17.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,294 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.
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 887 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14; the current branch is 6.8
2.3★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 3.91★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 887 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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| deliverymethod your tag | #1 | #2 | up 1 |
| mailsteresp your tag | #4 | #5 | 0 |
| mailgun your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mailster your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| newsletter your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “mailgun”, “mailster” and “newsletter” 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 536 · 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
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.4y ago
latest release · v1.5.1 · 27 May 2024
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% 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 “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band yesterday and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 500.
Install history since 28 May 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ josemanuel86.4y ago
I cannot understand the other here as this plugin does excatly what it says and receives updates from time to time.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ volsurterre6.5y ago
It looses the api key, one it was working and the mails were sent, then no way to make it work again…. I ave several accounts in mailgun… Sometomes only the sand bow appears, sometimes the other appear !!!! Incredebly unstable !
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Andrea6.9y ago
Just as the headline: it does the job.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ brede7.1y ago
Every time I switch over to mailgun plugin I get Cron Lock. All parameter have to be so low that it’s hopeless to use this. I have to set the number of email to 20 and 150ms between each and then is’s working for 2 or 3 cycles. I use cron job on siteground to run the job and this is configured to run every 30 min. So my newsletter use 2-3 weeks to get out. I never gets cron lock when using simple smtp.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ kenwilboy7.1y ago
This plugin have some serious flaw, I tried everything using this plug in, it won’t complete my email delivery list. This error kept on appearing: ‘to’ parameter is not a valid address. please check documentation. The worst of it, it doesn’t have email log funchtion, so I could not know what went wrong, I suspect it was a bug in the software, using Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log solved all of my problems and it also had email log function, If there is any errors in the future, I could easily track it. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by kenwilboy.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Loosie947.7y ago
I have tried this plugin, and set everything right in Mailgun itself. I was keep getting the following error: ‘to’ parameter is not a valid address. please check documentation. While searching long for as solution, I tried WP SMTP, and the error was gone and my campaign was sending again.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more
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
1 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 258 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "deliverymethod", "mailsteresp" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-30 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-29 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-28 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-27 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-10-23 500+ → 400+ down after 171 days in tier
- 2026-05-05 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-04 500+ → 600+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-04-30 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
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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Mailster Mailjet 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags -
Mailster MailerSend Integration 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags -
Mailster AmazonSES Integration 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A -
Mailster SendGrid Integration 900+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
Mailster Multi SMTP 300+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D -
Mailster SparkPost Integration 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags
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