WP PGP Encrypted Emails

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18 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 14 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 8 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 400.

1. ★★★★★ masvil

   4.4y ago

   It works great! I just had to stop using Fluent Forms because I found no way to make it sending emails in plain text. No plain text, no working PGP encryption. Native Kadence’s form block and Contact Form 7 they both work out-of-the-box with WP PGP Encrypted Emails plugin. I’ve done a donation to the dev, and so I will for each site I will use this plugin on. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by masvil.

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2. ★★★★★ billcv

   4.7y ago

   The plugin works very well and does exactly what it claims to. There are two changes that would be very useful though: 1. It would be nice if it allowed you to specify the admin email address. It has worpress@site hard coded, so it won’t work with sites that have changed the admin address. 2. It would be really nice if it were set up to work with Woocommerce, which typically has a separate outbound address than the WordPress outbound email.

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3. ★★★★★ marcludwig

   5.0y ago

   I have successfully implemented this plugin both for PGP and S/MIME encryption and it does the job just like it should. I can use the keys that I am already using for various email accounts and thus safely transmit any emails, including those from contact forms. It is not understandable to me how so few people are implementing this plugin, since GDPR is necessitating protection of user data – and that certainly includes contact form entries. Anyways, keep up the good work & please keep updating the plugin if ever PHP development should require it 😉 I’ll see to it that you receive a good donation for your work within a few months. Cheers!

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4. ★★★★★ schleifenbaum

   5.7y ago

   Works fine in my configuration and provides a good solution to send encrypted contact form messages to the wordpress’ admin e-mail. There are some array acces issues with php 7.4 or higher (Trying to access array offset on value of type bool), but I just switched back to php 7.2 and everthing works fine. Even though this issue can be fixed easily in the code, I decided to keep the original files and receive updates automatically.

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5. ★★★★★ funderburgh

   6.3y ago

   k This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by funderburgh. This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by funderburgh. This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by funderburgh.

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6. ★★★★★ digitalformationxyz

   6.4y ago

   We, a group of specialists, are developing the IT infrastructure of a new socio-economic formation, the basis of which is the knowledge economy. KNOWLEDGE is the Main processing elements (blocks of information) that need to be registered, verified and protected. It is also necessary to provide access to the open and closed parts of information about the processed Knowledge. Unfortunately, our attempts to create the required tool on our own did not lead to anything … When we found and tested this plugin, we as Archimedes said “Eureka!” We are grateful to the author of the Maymay plugin for his highly professional work. Moreover, thanks to the documentation for the plugin, we have solved several serious problems. For two years, the plugin has been working on our site and there have been no complaints about it. Since our project is non-profit, in spirit and essence, it is close to the Maymay author’s life principles, we look forward to working with him in the future. We put 5 stars.

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7. ★★★★★ channelmaster101

   8.1y ago

   I would like to say thank you to the author for providing our WordPress community such a great tool with free charge. It works pretty well with a simple but clever design and I hope I can implement it in the real production sometime in future. However, there are several things for improvement with PGP implementation. I haven’t got a chance to try out the plugin with S/MIME 1. The plugin’s built-in keypair generator only provides me the PGP private/public keys with the default email [email protected]. It doesn’t work with my own keys paste into the plugin’s key input boxes. 2. There is no passphrase to protect my private key. If attackers get into my admin dashboard then the game is over. It is worse as there is no way to revoke the keys unfortunately. 3. There is no expiry date for the generated keys. This is very important feature that you should be able to set a expiry date for your key in case it’s compromised, then it may solve the problem itself with the expiry date even you can’t revoke it. 4. The plugin doesn’t work with my own PGP keys generated by other tools ie Kleopatra. I paste my own keys in then I got an uncaught error when I tried to login with a test user account with PGP enabled and the error message was fully shown in my browser even I turned off the debug. 5. Using GpgOL within Outlook 2016, I can’t encrypt the message with the public key generated by the plugin’s built-in keypair generator. I got an error message when trying to do this – Crypto operation failed: Unusable public key. Note that the GpgOL works perfectly with my current keys generated by Kleopatra. Anyway, I think it’s a greatest plugin so far in the WordPress community in terms of email encryption for website. I hope that the author can improve it in some ways in the near future. This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by channelmaster101.

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8. ★★★★★ imachris

   8.2y ago

   The setup process is easy and it works amazingly. Although I face encoding issue with foreign character in Outlook, the plugin author is very helpful and prompt in assisting. The issue is solved in the end! Amazing both plugin and author. Thanks again Meitar.

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Translated into 124 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 100 more locales with partial translations.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-10-25 400+ → 300+ down after 361 days in tier
2. 2025-10-29 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-10-28 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
4. 2025-10-25 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-10-24 400+ → 500+ up after 43 days in tier
6. 2025-09-11 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-09-09 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
8. 2025-09-06 500+ → 400+ down after 567 days in tier

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WP PGP Encrypted Emails: 300+ active installs, 4.6★ (16 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails