Smaily Connect
by Smaily · Email & Marketing
Also makes 3 other plugins · 2.7K+ installs across the portfolio →
Connect WordPress and WooCommerce to Smaily to collect subscribers, automate emails and add optional personalized product recommendations.
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
2K+
≈2.4K estimated
Momentum
+22%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “email”, “mail” and “marketing” 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.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →5.4%
of downloads still active
At least 2K of 36.9K 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.
This plugin shipped 20 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 8 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: No reviews yet. wp.org scores an unrated plugin as middling on rating, so the first good reviews lift it.
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.
30
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.7
Velocity
places per keyword, 19d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 19d
-0.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| smaily your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| email your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mail your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| marketing your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| newsletter your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “email”, “mail” and “marketing” 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 24 Apr 2025 · 556 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 11.5K · 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
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
20
releases in the last 12 months
8d ago
latest release · v3.20.0 · 23 Oct 2026
32
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 45% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 3K+ in roughly 371 days.
Install history since 23 Apr 2025
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 2.0.0 Upgrades the minimum required WordPress version to 6.5 and minimum required PHP version to 7.4. This change also improves the support for WordPress version 7.0. 2.0.0
- — Version 1.6.2 Fixed a bug in the Elementor newsletter widget where the failure redirect URL was incorrectly using the success URL value, causing subscribers to be redirected to the wrong page after a failed subscription attempt. Fixed 1.6.2
- — Version 1.6.1 Fixed an issue where the discounted price was not correctly calculated in the RSS feed when using the tax rate parameter. The discounted price is now calculated correctly regardless of the tax rate used in the feed. Unif 1.6.1
- — Version 1.6.0 Added support for adding a tax rate to the RSS-feed product prices. This allows to change the tax rate used in the feed to match the tax rate used in Smaily email templates. This is especially useful for stores that want 1.6.0
- — Version 1.5.1 Added a label to the hidden fields section in the Smaily subscription block settings for better clarity. 1.5.1
- — Version 1.5.0 You can now customize the hidden fields on the Smaily subscription block form. This allows to set custom fields for subscribers added via the block form allowing to better segment the subscribers in Smaily. 1.5.0
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
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
7 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 "Connect WordPress and WooCommerce to Smaily to collect subscribers, automate emails and add optional person..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 11 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 11 of 11 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Elementor, Contact Form 7, WPML and 2 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 11 headings and 5 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 7,155 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "newsletter" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 172 days in tier
- 2025-11-29 900+ → 1K+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2025-11-17 800+ → 900+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2025-11-02 700+ → 800+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2025-10-21 600+ → 700+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2025-10-11 500+ → 600+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2025-10-02 400+ → 500+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2025-09-20 300+ → 400+ up after 12 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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Mailjet Email Marketing 10K+ installs · 3.3★ · 3 shared tags B -
Mail Subscribe List 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D -
Block for Mailchimp – grow your email list with signup forms 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
Ecomail 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
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