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EffortLess Simple Email Configuration vs WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin
Both plugins as this registry currently observes them. Figures come from the same daily snapshot, so they are directly comparable, which two separate wordpress.org pages, read minutes apart, are not.
| EffortLess Simple Email Configuration | WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Configure email settings for EffortLess plugins: PHP Mail or SMTP with custom From email. | Make email delivery easy for WordPress. Connect with SMTP, Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Mailgun, SES, Zoho, + more. Rated #1 WordPress SMTP Email plugin. |
| Active installs | fewer than 10 | 4,000,000+ |
| Rating | — | 4.8★ (5,189) |
| Last release | 3 days ago | 2 months ago |
| Current owner | domclic | Syed Balkhi |
| Added to directory | 13 Apr 2026 | 12 Sep 2007 |
| Tested up to | WP 7.1 | WP 7.0.4 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
Install figures are rounded by WordPress.org to one significant digit, so a gap smaller than a band step is not a difference. Nothing here ranks the two plugins or recommends either, and no link on this page earns anything.
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Records: EffortLess Simple Email Configuration · WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin