WP SMTP Mailer – SMTP7

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 62% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ lober22

   3mo ago

   Does what it is supposed to do. Easy to set-up and obviously reliable.

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2. ★★★★★ bobanristic

   5mo ago

   Thank you very much for your effort.

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3. ★★★★★ hellogergej

   7mo ago

   Thank You 🙂

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4. ★★★★★ jjooa

   8mo ago

   Just works great

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5. ★★★★★ fredben

   9mo ago

   Good extension

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6. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   9mo ago

   simple, nice

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7. ★★★★★ drebin

   10mo ago

   Does the job. Every single time.

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8. ★★★★★ kevin_bt

   12mo ago

   It’s a no-nonsense way to set up SMTP. I use Brevo for the relay server. They have a nice free tier. Combined with Brevos’s easy-to-find API key, it’s no sweat to have emails sent from your domain. For example, From address: [email protected] From name: Head Editor Getting an email sent to [email protected] is a whole other can of worms. But it’s nice that this plugin doesn’t have that. It keeps the settings simple.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-10-12 8K+ → 9K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-10-11 9K+ → 8K+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-10-09 8K+ → 9K+ up after 169 days in tier
4. 2025-04-23 7K+ → 8K+ up after 83 days in tier
5. 2025-01-30 6K+ → 7K+ up after 96 days in tier
6. 2024-10-26 5K+ → 6K+ up after 211 days in tier
7. 2024-03-29 4K+ → 5K+ up after 149 days in tier
8. 2023-11-01 3K+ → 4K+ up after 220 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).

• FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudflare, toSend, Gmail and Any SMTP 600K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• GoSMTP – SMTP for WordPress 500K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
• Solid Mail – SMTP email and logging made by SolidWP 60K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag B
• YaySMTP – WP Mail SMTP with Email Logs, Tracking & Reports 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• wp_mail return-path 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag D
• SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B

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WP SMTP Mailer – SMTP7: 9K+ active installs, 5.0★ (113 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-mail-smtp-mailer