WP Offload SES Lite
Fix your email delivery problems by sending your WordPress emails through Amazon SES's powerful email sending infrastructure.
4.3(36 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, WP Offload SES Lite is a WordPress smtp plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 36 reviews. It has been downloaded 753K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 8.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 41% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
4.3/536 reviews
10K+active installs
50%resolved
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Are your WordPress site emails not being delivered? That’s pretty common. Over 20,000 sites trust WP Offload SES Lite to send their site email.
WordPress’ default email sending functions just don’t cut it these days. You absolutely need to set up something more.
Some folks set up an SMTP plugin to use their existing email provider (e.g. Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, etc) to send their WordPress emails but then find out the hard way (i.e. emails not getting delivered) that there’s a daily hard limit on the number of emails they can send. Sending WordPress emails through SMTP is simply not worth the risk.
Other folks try sending services like Postmark, Mailgun, Sendgrid, etc but realize that they’re expensive and their WordPress plugins are subpar (check out our r…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.336 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Good
by kloddant·2 months ago
Good. Does what it is supposed to.
Been using for years and works better than many alternatives
by kwebdesign·2 years ago
I’ve been through many mailing plugins, often changing each year. WP Offload SES hasn’t given me any reason to look elsewhere.
Lovely
by tufty·3 years ago
Fast and just works. Thanks!
wonderful
by tsiotas·3 years ago
it works perfectly
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Download Trends
Today: 424Yesterday: 450This week: 3KPeriod total: 83K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 8.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.7
59.7%
v1.8
16.5%
v1.4
11.3%
v1.6
9.9%
Other
2.7%
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Changelog
1.8.0 – 2026-03-25
- New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.369.22
- New: PHP 8.4 compatible
- New: PHP 8.5 compatible
- New: Requires PHP 8.1+
- New: WordPress 7.0 compatible
…and 8 more changes
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