Personal Email
by Shea Bunge · Email & Marketing
Changes the default address that WordPress uses to send emails to the one set in Settings > General.
46 health vs 69 average across 507 Email & Marketing plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2054 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
25
now · peak 76
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-01-20 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-18 100+ → 200+ up after 11 days in band
- 2025-01-07 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-01-06 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-01-05 200+ → 100+ down after 644 days in band
- 2023-04-02 300+ → 200+ down after 81 days in band
- 2023-01-11 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-01-10 300+ → 200+ down after 2 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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Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B -
SMTP Mailer 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Change Mail Sender 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags C -
Zoho Mail for WordPress 20K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Gmail SMTP 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Mail Log 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
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