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Mailchimp Widget by ProteusThemes

by ProteusThemes · Email & Marketing

Also makes 2 other plugins · 5K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Capture your visitor's email address and subscribe them to your newsletter campaign with this simple Mailchimp widget plugin!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

52.5K

Total downloads

since 2017

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+50%

199

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.21.

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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2281 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

199

now · peak 646

19630d downloads · Aug 26

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

Mailchimp Widget by · #6366 you MC4WP: Mailchimp for · #34 Mailchimp List Subsc · #671 Mailjet Email Market · #1509

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.

196per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

6.2y ago

latest release · v1.0.5

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.5 · 6.2y ago1.0.4 · 6.2y ago1.0.3 · 8.8y ago1.0.2 · 9.1y ago1.0.1 · 9.1y ago1.0.0 · 9.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2018-04-02 · 1,427 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.5
Last updated
6.2y ago
Added
2017-07-06 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.4.21
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Primoz Cigler
    9.2y ago

    There are tons of plugins with similar functionality, most of them will clutter your wp-admin with banners and upgrade notices or be very hard to use and configure. Most probably both. This is a perfect example how the plugins should look like. Easy to use and without all the unnecessary clutter and gazillion of options. Great work!

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  2. ★★★★★ spaka
    9.2y ago

    This plugin is exactly what I need. Nothing less nothing more! PERFECT!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4.1

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Slovenian 100%
German 8%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-02-15 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-02-14 1K+ → 2K+ up after 14 days in tier
  3. 2024-01-31 2K+ → 1K+ down

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Mailchimp Widget by ProteusThemes: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/proteusthemes-mailchimp-widget