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Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging
Your reliable little detective for every WordPress email.
HealthyGrowing
95/100
This utility provides reliable email logging and debugging for free.
Active installs
~167,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.8★
288 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+69%
Growing fast
508 → 861 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +69% in the last year
508/day a year ago→861/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCheck & Log Email is a well-regarded, no-frills email logging and testing plugin for WordPress that users appreciate for its reliability and free availability, with no notable recurring complaints surfaced in current reviews.
What people like
- +Reliably does what it advertises — logs emails accurately and works out of the box×8
- +Useful in both development and production environments×2
- +Includes helpful extras such as a WP Dashboard widget and SMTP test tool
- +Free version is fully functional without paywalled core features×2
- +Easy to set up and stable×2
Common complaints
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 288 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Very usefulohliza
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Simple and straight to the pointjollycoder
- 2026-05-10★★★★★It works very well and it's freemikejj101
- 2026-04-06★★★★★Works very well!akhe
- 2026-04-06★★★★★Works goodmarkymm
- 2026-03-27★★★★★Works as it is supposed tomersatech
- 2026-03-18★★★★★Check & Log EmailMarcelFaber20151-shot
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Works great, easy to use.cameronwp
- 2026-03-01★★★★★Just worksehwh
- 2026-02-26★★★★★Solid, dead-simpleAcal
Releases
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
974
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
707
Prior 7-day baseline
791
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
24,071
Mean release-day peak (30d)
888
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+37.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
6%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.66
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.78 → 4.76★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered