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Post Status Notifications

by DraftPress Team · Email & Marketing

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The Post Status Notifications plugin by 99 Robots provides an easy way to notify Administrators when Contributors submit posts for review or when a Co …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 8/100
Rating quality 68/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

Removal-risk signals

45/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.

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 17/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 61/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1096 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+80% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

160

now · peak 1.1K

16730d downloads · Aug 26

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

Post Status Notifica · #6771 you Archive Content with · #3017 Colored Admin Post L · #9010 LH Private Content L · #11040

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.5Stars · Aug 26

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.

167per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

3.0y ago

latest release · v3.2.0

15

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.2.0 · 3.0y ago3.1.9 · 4.1y ago3.1.8 · 5.0y ago3.1.7 · 5.3y ago3.1.6 · 5.7y ago3.1.5 · 6.0y ago3.1.4 · 6.0y ago3.1.2 · 6.3y ago3.1.0 · 7.0y ago3.1.1 · 7.0y ago3.0.4 · 9.2y ago3.0.3 · 10.0y ago3.0.2 · 10.9y ago2.0.5 · 11.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.2 91%
v3.1 8.2%
v3.0 1.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
1K–2K ≈1.4K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-12-15 · 1,431 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
3.2.0
Last updated
3.0y ago
Added
2014-05-01 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
4.9
Tested up to
6.3.10
Requires PHP
5.6.20

Recent reviews

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  1. nrgtcla
    4.1y ago

    Thanks for this useful plugin !

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  2. juanp
    5.2y ago

    Lousy. I am an admin and I needed it to receive notifications when someone leaves a “pending post”, but instead he sends me horrible emails with very long links when I publish the note that was pending. In other words, it informs me about what I did. Completely useless.

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  3. madriverweb
    8.2y ago

    <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>Since I cannot create another review, I can only edit this one negatively. This plugin was great, however, I cannot get it to work with the Block editor. I turned off the two-step publishing process, but it still won’t go out. No-one has answered either of my support requests, https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-block-editor-2/ or https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-block-editor-emails-not-sent/. It seems the support is severely lacking. Can’t wait any longer. Going to change to another method.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by madriverweb.

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  4. Kingsley Ibietela Felix
    9.2y ago

    users do not receive any notification when post has been published. edit: after switching to sendgrid, mails where sent to almost all users. This topic was modified 9 years ago by bdbrown. This topic was modified 9 years ago by Kingsley Ibietela Felix. This topic was modified 9 years ago by Kingsley Ibietela Felix.

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  5. shmocs
    9.7y ago

    I have to say I have Easy WP SMTP installed and all emails from my WordPress are sent via a googlemail account. But I am sure it should work also with usual network mail.

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  6. kmohnani
    10.9y ago

    Hi, I am not able to send or receive the email notification to or from admin. Please help.

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  7. Outdoorsmen
    11.0y ago

    This plugin sends links to their website when it sends out the notification. The authors also made their files Read Only in an attempt to prevent you from making any changes. You do not have the option of removing this. Line 325 in the wpsite_post_status_notification.php file adds their information to your posts. $wpsite_info = “\r\n\r\nThis was sent by 99 Robots Post Status Notifications.” . “\r\n” . “99robots.com”;

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  8. AliKat
    11.4y ago

    Thanks, this is exactly what I needed!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%
Japanese 93%

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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