Swift SMTP (formerly Welcome Email Editor): stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Swift SMTP (formerly Welcome Email Editor) still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

No release for a while. The last one was 11 months ago.
Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.2 out of 5 from 68 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 94.4% of the directory

Ahead of 45,069 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

94.4% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

45,069 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

2,659 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 6.3
Requires WordPress: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.9.11
Added to the directory: 21 April 2009
Last updated: 1 December 2025
Contributors: 1
Author: David Vongries

Its own tags

custom smtp
smtp
Welcome Email Editor
wordpress email
WP Mail SMTP

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