Its last release was 6 months ago. Still alive, slower.
This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.
By Syed Balkhi, tested up to WordPress 6.9.7. Listing on wordpress.org.
Sharing this plugin's own tags, filtered to ones that are still shipping.
| Silent for | Installs | Plugin | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0mo | 5,000,000 | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection Automattic · via spam | 4.7★ |
| 2mo | 4,000,000 | WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin Syed Balkhi · via email | 4.8★ |
| 0mo | 1,000,000 | MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress Danny van Kooten · via email | 4.8★ |
| 1mo | 600,000 | FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Cloudf WPManageNinja · via smtp | 4.8★ |
| 2mo | 600,000 | Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening Sucuri · via spam | 4.2★ |
| 1mo | 500,000 | Easy WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP and Email Logs: Gmail SMTP, Office 365, Outlook, C Syed Balkhi · via email | 4.6★ |
| 1mo | 500,000 | GoSMTP – SMTP for WordPress Softaculous · via smtp | 4.3★ |
| 0mo | 300,000 | Post SMTP – Complete Email Deliverability and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Ale Saad Iqbal · via email | 4.7★ |
Selected mechanically, not editorially: shipped within 12 months, 1,000+ installs, and 3.5 stars or better where 10+ people rated it. Ranked by install count. Nobody paid to be on this list and there is nothing to pay for.
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