by WP Engine 4.3 (36 reviews)

WP Offload SES Lite

Name: WP Offload SES Lite
Rating: 4.3 (36 reviews)
Author: WP Engine

Fix your email delivery problems by sending your WordPress emails through Amazon SES's powerful email sending infrastructure.

WP Offload SES Lite ranks #1,532 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #92 of 3,342 in the Communication category, a 4.3/5 rating from 36 reviews, and was last updated Aug 19, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.8.2 Current Version v1.8.2

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 19 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 16 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#92 of 3,342 in Communication Top 5% by installs Downloads -38.7% this week Actively maintained

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#1,532

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Active Installs

10K+

-46.5%

KW Avg Position

0.2 worse

Downloads

750.8K

+371 today

Support Resolved

100%

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Rating

86%

Review 4.3 out of 5

4.3 (36 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 86%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.3

36 reviews

Overall 86%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Jun 29, 2021

WP Offload SES Lite [wp-ses] < 1.4.5

CVE-2021-24494 · Fixed in v1.4.5

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.8.2
Last Updated: Aug 19, 2026
Requires WP: 5.9+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.1 or higher
Author: WP Engine

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.3
Reviews: 36
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners whose emails aren't reaching recipients. It solves email deliverability problems by routing WordPress emails through Amazon SES, offering setup, verification, and monitoring tools.

Step-by-step setup wizard
Verify sending domains and emails
Send test emails
View sent email list
View SES send rate statistics
Custom Reply To and Return Path
Weekly health report emails
Multisite subsite configuration

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Offload SES Lite

If you upgrade to WP Offload SES, we will gladly provide you with email support. We take pride in delivering exceptional customer support. We do not provide email support for the free version.

Latest version of WordPress or the one previous PHP 7.4+ compiled with the cURL extension MySQL 5.5+ Apache 2+ or Nginx 1.4+ Amazon Web Services account

Unfortunately, sending emails through your existing email provider over SMTP is prone to hitting rate limits, as standard email services like Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, etc aren’t designed for the large number of emails that are sent when sending out invoices, password reset emails, support requests, etc. SMTP is also missing some key features like an email queue which means emails that don’t send successfully on the first try just get dropped.

At the moment WP Offload SES only supports Amazon SES. We're considering supporting additional services like Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark, etc in the future. If this is something you'd like to see, let us know.

While you can see a list of all emails sent from your site with this plugin, WP Offload SES Lite does not auto-retry failures (nor does Amazon SES). If you’d like a plugin that will auto-retry for you, upgrade to WP Offload SES.

We are not otherwise linked to Amazon or Amazon Web Services. Please direct your specific Amazon questions to Amazon support.

You can configure the entire network to use the same settings by configuring the plugin via the Network Admin settings screen. If a subsite should have different settings, you can override some or all of the network settings by going to the WP Offload SES Lite settings page for that subsite. You can also use the WPOSES_SETTINGS constant to define settings that will be applied to all subsites and can’t be overridden via the UI: define( 'WPOSES_SETTINGS', serialize( array( // Send site emails via Amazon SES. 'send-via-ses' => true, // Queue email, but do not send it. 'enqueue-only' => false, // Enable open tracking. 'enable-open-tracking' => true, // Enable click tracking. 'enable-click-tracking' => true, // Amazon SES region (e.g. 'us-east-1' - leave blank for default region). 'region' => 'us-east-1', // Changes the default email address used by WordPress 'default-email' => 'your-email@example.com', // Changes the default email name used by WordPress. 'default-email-name' => 'Your Name Here', // Sets the "Reply-To" header for all outgoing emails. 'reply-to' => 'your-email@example.com', // Sets the "Return-Path" header used by Amazon SES. 'return-path' => 'your-email@example.com', // Amount of days to keep email logs (e.g. 30, 60, 90, 180, 365, 730) 'log-duration' => '30', // Enable instantly deleting a successfully sent email from the log. 'delete-successful' => false, // Enable instantly deleting successfully re-sent failed emails from the log (Pro only). 'delete-re-sent-failed' => false, ) ) ); See our documentation on this for more information.

Yes, the wposes_mail_sent hook could be used to log emails, or post email info to an API or database: function myMailSentHook( $to, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachments ) { // Your code here. } add_action( 'wposes_mail_sent', 'myMailSentHook', 10, 5 );

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Yes, WP Offload SES should be compatible with any plugin that uses the standard wp_mail() function for sending email. If you’ve found a plugin that isn’t using that function for sending mail, you may want to reach out to the plugin developer and see if that can be changed.