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Manage Notification E-mails
Tame the WordPress email noise with a side of password reset anxiety.
HealthyDeclining
69/100
It cleans up your inbox but carries a risk of breaking essential password reset flows.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.8★
53 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-26%
Declining fast
136 → 100 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 26% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -26% in the last year
136/day a year ago→100/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayManage Notification E-mails is a well-liked utility plugin for suppressing unwanted WordPress system emails, but it carries real concerns around reliability, a reported conflict with password reset emails, and insufficient granularity in its notification controls.
What people like
- +Effectively suppresses unwanted WordPress automated emails, such as auto-update notifications×5
- +Described as easy to use and working without issues for most users×4
- +Keeps inboxes clean from WordPress system email noise×3
Common complaints
- −Plugin reportedly blocks password reset emails when the 'lost password' option is disabled, with no way to separate 'lost password' and 'password changed' notifications into distinct controls×2
- −At least one report of the plugin being abandoned and no longer working correctly, with users not receiving emails they should be getting
- −Occasional unexplained failures where suppression stops working and users get flooded with emails
- −Hard to find in the WordPress plugin directory due to the 'e-mail' spelling not matching common search terms like 'email notifications'
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 4%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 · 53 total
Latest reviews · 53 analyzed
- 2024-10-24★★★★★Perfectthomasobrien1-shot
- 2024-10-02★★★★★Really useful pluginTomCobbley
- 2024-03-12★★★★★功能很完整richard0508
- 2023-08-01★★★★★Good pluginsnoringdragon
- 2023-07-03★★★★★Prevents password changeslookwhoo
- 2023-05-23★★★★★Works without any problemsamtr
- 2023-05-17★★★★★Stopped working this weekjreitter
- 2023-04-27★★★★★Diesn't work, still getting notificationsAlexPTY
- 2023-03-29★★★★★Funciona muito bemAlpha Vale Tec
- 2023-03-22★★★★★Works great!mlipenk
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.
137
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
75
Prior 7-day baseline
73
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
286
Mean release-day peak (30d)
137
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+82.7%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.49
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.77 → 4.76★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered