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Disable Emails
The ultimate mute button for your staging site.
Growing
77/100
This simple utility reliably silences WordPress emails for development and staging environments.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
5.0★
20 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+729%
Growing fast
47 → 386 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
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 · +729% in the last year
47/day a year ago→386/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDisable Emails is a well-regarded, no-configuration utility plugin that reliably suppresses WordPress outgoing emails, valued most as a must-have tool for development and staging environments, with no notable complaints from users.
What people like
- +Works immediately upon activation with no configuration needed×5
- +Considered essential for dev/staging sites to prevent accidental emails to real users×4
- +Pairs well with mail logging plugins for troubleshooting email workflows without sending real emails
- +Solves specific WordPress core behavior of auto-sending emails (e.g., on bulk user creation) with no built-in off switch
Common complaints
Review trustMostly organic
- 5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
- 100%5★ concentration — near-perfect across only 20 reviews — not yet a proven track record
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 20 total
Latest reviews · 20 analyzed
- 2025-12-04★★★★★Great pluginMarcos Nakamine
- 2024-05-22★★★★★Perfect, nothing fancy.Uday Kokitkar
- 2023-12-01★★★★★Great and SimpleMenn
- 2023-11-20★★★★★Works perfectly! Staging site peace of mind.AJD
- 2022-11-13★★★★★Works like a charmDani
- 2022-06-14★★★★★Great for our staging sitesDave Loodts
- 2020-10-26★★★★★Just PERFECTomegasix
- 2019-12-20★★★★★Very Useful For Development Sitesisabel104
- 2019-12-11★★★★★Working fine.dubtism
- 2019-08-12★★★★★Very Handy! Does what it says on the tin.sprucelydesigned
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
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.
472
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
368
Prior 7-day baseline
177
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
725
Mean release-day peak (30d)
472
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+28.3%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.26
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
100%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
5.00 → 5.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered