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Flarepipe Email Is Now in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory

• Tom Morton

Flarepipe Email is now listed in the official WordPress.org plugin directory. You can find it there under the name Flarepipe Email for Cloudflare, and it works exactly like any other directory plugin: search, click, install, done.

This is a milestone we have been working toward for a while, and it changes how the free plugin reaches you in two important ways.

One-click installs

Until now, installing the free plugin meant downloading a zip from us and uploading it to your site. That worked, but it was friction that a WordPress plugin should not have. As of today:

  1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Search for Flarepipe.
  3. Click Install Now on Flarepipe Email for Cloudflare, then activate it.

If you live in the terminal, WP-CLI works too:

wp plugin install flarepipe-email --activate

From there, our installation guide walks you through connecting your Cloudflare account.

Automatic updates, like every other plugin

This is the bigger deal. Directory plugins get updates through the standard WordPress update system, so when we ship a new version of the free plugin, your dashboard shows the update notice and one click brings you current. No more downloading a fresh zip. If you already run one of our commercial tiers, nothing changes for you: Pro, Max, and Ultra keep updating automatically through our own updater.

If you installed the free plugin by direct download in the past, it keeps working, and once you are on the current version, future updates arrive from WordPress.org like any other plugin. If anything looks off after updating, reach out through our support page and we will sort it out.

What the review means

Every plugin in the directory goes through a manual review by the WordPress.org plugins team before it is listed, covering security, guideline compliance, and how the plugin behaves on your site. Ours was a thorough one. Along the way we tightened escaping and database handling, removed anything that phoned home, and, as regular readers know, picked up a new name. The plugin that came out the other side is leaner and stricter than the one that went in, and every one of those improvements ships in the free plugin you install today.

The listing also gives the project a public home that is not ours: version history, source that anyone can inspect via SVN, and a place to leave reviews. If Flarepipe Email has been useful to you, a review there genuinely helps other WordPress users find it.

The short version

The free plugin is easier to install, easier to keep updated, and vetted by the WordPress.org review process. If you have been waiting for the directory listing to give it a try, today is the day. And if you want Flarepipe to handle DNS authentication, queueing, and logging on top of sending, the premium tiers are ready when you are.

Thanks to everyone who installed the early builds by hand and reported what they found. You got us here.