Vik Mail SMTP – Wizard and Logs

by e4jvikwp · Email & Marketing

Power up the email sending functions of your website with Vik Mail SMTP. Custom SMTP connections and headers (From Name, From Address) with Logs.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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45 Health · D

Maintenance 13/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 74 average across 358 Email & Marketing plugins

200+

Active installs

≈290 estimated

3.3K

Total downloads

since 2018

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-39%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance 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.

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.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 21/100

WP compatibility 68/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 984 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-39% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 208

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

Vik Mail SMTP · #12882 SMTP Mailer · #600 Simple SMTP by Maile · #7791 WP Mail SMTP SendGri · #8888

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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

200–300 ≈290

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.2
Last updated: 2.7y ago
Added: 2018-04-19 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.7
Tested up to: 6.4.8
Requires PHP: 5.4.0

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Growth timeline

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

2024-02-14 100+ → 200+ up after 7 days in band
2024-02-07 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in band
2024-02-04 100+ → 200+ up

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