Mailing Group Listserv
by Yamna Khawaja · Email & Marketing
Creates a Mailing Group on your site to which users can subscribe, messages sent to the group's email address will be forwarded to all members.
64 health vs 64 average across 863 Email & Marketing plugins
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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 448 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
52
now · peak 1.2K
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-19 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-18 100+ → 200+ up after 134 days in tier
- 2025-09-06 200+ → 100+ down after 414 days in tier
- 2024-07-19 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2024-07-17 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-07-16 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2024-07-14 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-07-13 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Benchmark Email Lite 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
Contact Form 7 GetResponse Extension 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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