Pixeline's Email vs WP Mail Logging — WordPress

Pixeline's vs WP Mail Logging

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Pixeline's

4.3·8reviews·800+installs

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Pixeline's	WP Mail Logging
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Description	2655 / 5000 chars53% used	2630 / 5000 chars53% used
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Languages
Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	pixeline	Syed Balkhi
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2. Categories & rankings

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At a glance

4 metrics · auto-computed

Feature comparison between Pixeline's Email Protector and WP Mail Logging
Metric	Pixeline's Email Protector	WP Mail Logging
Rating	4.3 ★	★ 4.7 ★
Total reviews	8	★ 365
Active installs	800+	300,000+
Free plan	—	—

4. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Pixeline's

This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters / spambots. Post/page authors may write email addresses in their article in the usual format (“[email protected]”) without exposing them to spam email harvesters. The plugin takes care of the obfuscation, implementing a graceful degradation technique focusing on usability so as to protect your email addresses from harvesters while keeping them usable to your human visitors. The plugin replaces any email address found in posts, pages, comments and excerpts, and replace them by a bit of html markup that should deceive most email harvesters: john(replace the parenthesis by @)doe.com . If javascript is available, it will display a clickable link and display the original email to the human user. Maximum usability, maximum protection. Please rate the plugin if you like it. Usage Write your email addresses inside your posts and pages as usual. When the plugin is activated, it will replace them by a human-readable html string that explains how to deduce the email address, and if javascript is available (99.9% of the time), the original email address will be displayed as a clickable mailto: link. For example: Hello [email protected]. How are you today? will become John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com. Additionally, you can specify what the mailto: link should look like by sticking a parenthesis inside of which you put the visible link text, like this: Hello [email protected](John Doe). How are you today? will become John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com. inside a theme If you need to protect emails inside your Theme’s files (like the footer.php for example), you can use the function safe_email() like this: echo safe_email('[email protected]'); Theme-safe alternative (plugin can be disabled) If your theme must keep working even when this plugin is disabled, use a wrapper in your theme (for example in functions.php) and call that wrapper everywhere instead of calling safe_email() directly. if ( ! function_exists( 'theme_safe_email' ) ) { function theme_safe_email( $email, $label = '' ) { $email = sanitize_email( $email ); if ( '' === $email ) { return ''; } if ( function_exists( 'safe_email' ) ) { $payload = $email . ( '' !== $label ? '(' . $label . ')' : '' ); return safe_email( $payload ); } $encoded_email = antispambot( $email ); $link_label = '' !== $label ? $label : $encoded_email; return ' ' . esc_html( $link_label ) . ' '; } } Contribute Github repo: https://github.com/pixeline/pixeline-email-protector

Top keywords

email24×6.03%
com7×1.76%
doe7×1.76%
john7×1.76%
label7×1.76%
''6×1.51%
doe com6×1.51%
link6×1.51%
safe6×1.51%
replace5×1.26%
safe email5×1.26%
theme5×1.26%

WP Mail Logging

WP Mail Logging is the most popular plugin for logging emails sent from your WordPress site. Simply activate it and it will work immediately, no extra configuration is needed. Are your WordPress emails not being sent or delivered? Use this plugin to log all outgoing emails from your WordPress site. If there are any errors when sending the email from your site, our email logs will catch that error and display it to you. This will allow you to debug and fix your email sending issue. Did a client not receive your email? Our email logs allow you to resend any email that was sent from your site. No more lost emails! Do you just want to keep a record of all emails sent from your site? By default, WordPress and your web host do not log, store or keep track of emails sent from your website. This plugin will allow you to do just that. Our email logs will store every email that is sent from your WordPress site. You can search and view a particular email log, inspect its content or attachments, and even resend that email. What email information is logged? All emails sent from your WordPress site are logged. And here is the information that is stored: Email Subject Email Content (HTML or text) Email Attachments Email Headers (to, from, reply-to, cc, bcc, …) Error Message (in case there was an error while attempting to send the email) IP Address of originating server (can be enabled in the settings) Date and Time of the email Receiver (the TO email address) Why are my logged emails still not delivered to the inbox? There are a lot of steps that emails have to make in order to be delivered to the recipient’s inbox. When your WordPress site sends an email, there’s no guarantee it will be delivered. This is what the email’s journey looks like: WordPress creates an email WordPress passes the email to your website host and that email gets logged by our plugin The host server takes the email and sends it (SMTP or Mail Transfer Agent) Recipient server receives or blocks the email If the email is accepted, the spam filter decides if it goes to the inbox or the spam folder Recipients see the email and might open it. This plugin does not track delivery after step 2. If you have deliverability issues, we suggest installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin. WP Mail SMTP fixes WordPress email deliverability problems, you can choose between 12 email providers (Gmail, Outlook, SendLayer, Mailgun, …) to resolve your email sending issue and it’s super easy to set up. WP Mail SMTP is trusted by more than 3 million websites. Credits The plugin was created and launched in 2014 by Christian Zöller.

Top keywords

email30×6.44%
wordpress10×2.15%

Frequently asked

Common questions about this comparison

Which has better reviews, Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

WP Mail Logging has the higher average rating (4.7★ from 365 reviews) compared to Pixeline's Email Protector (4.3★ from 8 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

WP Mail Logging holds the higher average rating (4.7★ vs 4.3★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. WP Mail Logging has the deeper published review base (365 vs 8), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Pixeline's Email Protector typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (8 reviews). WP Mail Logging typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (365 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Pixeline's Email Protector and WP Mail Logging?

Migration support varies by app and category. Pixeline's Email Protector and WP Mail Logging both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Pixeline's Email Protector" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

Pixeline's vs WP Mail Logging

Pixeline's

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

WP Mail Logging

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3. Activity in the last 90 days

Pixeline's · 2 changes

WP Mail Logging · 0 changes

4. App details

Frequently asked

Which has better reviews, Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

Should I choose Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

Which is faster to set up, Pixeline's Email Protector or WP Mail Logging?

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Can I migrate data between Pixeline's Email Protector and WP Mail Logging?

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