Notifly
by Matt Mullenweg · Membership
Send notification emails of all new posts and new comments to everyone on a list. Great for private blogs.
41 health vs 71 average across 107 Membership 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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 2937 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
58
now · peak 154
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-11 30+ → 20+ down after 335 days in band
- 2025-07-11 40+ → 30+ down after 4 days in band
- 2025-07-07 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-07-05 40+ → 30+ down after 7 days in band
- 2025-06-28 30+ → 40+ up after 13 days in band
- 2025-06-15 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in band
- 2025-06-09 30+ → 40+ up after 30 days in band
- 2025-05-10 40+ → 30+ down after 10 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- S Subscribe to Comments 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags C
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Subscribe2 – Form, Email Subscribers & Newsletters 10K+ installs · 3.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Subscribe 7K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Remove noreferrer 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D - P Peter’s Post Notes 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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Post Notification by Email 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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