Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

SMTP.com

Active installs80+ rounded
Current authorSMTP.com
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release7 months ago 23 Feb 2026
Support no recent threads
Releases on record1
Rating4.0 /5 · 7
Added to directory19 Jan 2022
Requires WP4.4.1
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.2 behind
Tested up toWP 6.9.7 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by SMTP.com throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

Committing accounts

Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
smtpcom123 Feb 202623 Feb 2026

This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.

Adoption

How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.

Very early-stage: 80+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

4 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 164% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

08 Aug 2026peak 18/day15 Sep 2026
4.0
out of 5
7 ratings
5571%
400%
300%
2114%
1114%

Daily record

Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.

Field02 Sep03 Sep04 Sep05 Sep06 Sep07 Sep08 Sep09 Sep10 Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep
Downloads that day0001100001800011

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (7) · active installs (80+) · version (1.0.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

45 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.

Maintenance

When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.

Added to directory4.5 years ago 19 Jan 2022
Requires WP4.4.1
Requires PHP7.2
Version lag0.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 23 Feb 2026, 205 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.9.7, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 2 releases.
  • SMTP.com publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.

A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.

History

Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.

  1. 02 Aug 20261 month ago
    First observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
  2. 23 Feb 20267 months ago
    Version 1.0.0 released
  3. 19 Jan 20224.5 years ago
    Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

What we know, and what we don’t

Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.

What we know

  • It has been held by SMTP.com for all 45 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 7 months ago (23 Feb 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.9.7; WordPress is now on 7.1.
  • WordPress.org reports 80+ active installs.
  • It carries 7 ratings, averaging 4.0 out of 5.

What we don’t know yet

  • No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.

Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see

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