wp-greet
wp-greet sends greeting cards from your WordPress blog. It works with WordPress-, NextGen- or NextCellentGallery.
Use with caution
wp-greet works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 4.9/5 and was last updated 10 months ago, and scores 52/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (50+ active installs)
- Only tested up to WordPress 6.9 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where wp-greet stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| card | >100 |
| >100 | |
| greetcard | #1 |
| Greeting | #32 |
| send | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 from 10 reviews
About wp-greet
From the official readme · v6.3Description
wp-greet is a plugin for the famous WordPress blogging system,
giving your users the ability to send greeting cards from your blog.
Features:
- uses WordPress native gallery NextCellentGallery or NextGenGallery for maintainig the greeting card picture
- storing statistics about the sent greeting cards
- adding your own css
- control who can send cards
- add default subject, header and footer to the greeting cards
- various settings for sending the mails (SMTP, SSL, PHPMail)
- supports Antispam Plugins CaptCha! and Math-Comment-Spam-Protection-Plugin
- sign your greeting cards with your own stamp
- backgroundmusic for your cards
- supports individual terms of usage
- supports confirmation mail processing
- supports fetching the card online or sent it by mail
- can send cards in the future
- WPML certified
Using HOWLER.js (https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js)
Copyright (c) 2013-2018 James Simpson and GoldFire Studios, Inc.
Released under the MIT License.
requirements
- WordPress >= 4.1.x
- Optional: NextCellentGallery, NextGenGallery >= v1.90
update from prior v1.1
IMPORTANT:
Please be sure to remove all files belonging to versions prior
to v1.1 before uploading v1.1
Please be sure to remove the patched version of nggfunctions.php
which was necessary to integrate wp-greet with NextGenGallery
prior to version 1.1<h3>update to v1.7 and higher</h3>IMPORTANT:
Please be sure to deactivate and activate the plugin one time
because the database updates will only be executed during
plugin activation<h3>usage from v1.1 on</h3>1. Create a page or posting containing the tag [wp-greet].
1. Remember the permalink of this page/post
1. Enter the page/post number at the wp-greet admin dialog into the field Form-Post/Page and switch to your favourite gallery plugin
1. Create a page with your favourite gallery on it using the following syntax, e.g. for ngg: [gallery=1]
1. thats it, just klick on a picture on the gallery page and send it
For more details see the online documentation of wp-greet.
http://www.tuxlog.de/wordpress/2008/wp-greet-documentation-english/
translations
wp-greet comes with english and german translations.
if you would like to add a new translation, just take the file
wp-greet.pot (in the wp-greet main directory) copy it to
.po and edit it to add your translations (e.g. with poedit).
Meanwhile a swedish, french, italians and vietnames translation was
kindly build by other users. See Changelog for credits.
Installation
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Upload to your plugins folder, usually
wp-content/plugins/, keeping the directory structure intact (e.g.wp-greet.phpshould end up inwp-content/plugins/wp-greet/). -
Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
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Visit the configuration page (Options -> wp-greet) to configure the plugin (do not forget to add the forms page id)
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Optional: If you would like to change the style, just edit wp-greet.css
Frequently asked questions
How can I make wp-greet work with NextgenGallery Version >= 2.0.0?
Unfortunately Photocrati did a major redesign of NGG and therfore the connecting filters were removed. You can read about this redesign in the wordpress.org forums. But we can make it work by editing nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_gallery/templates/thumbnails/index.php and change one line. from ” to ” You can also fetch the patched file (index.php) from the wp-greet/patch directory and copy it to nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_gallery/templates/thumbnails If this seems to difficult try using the new interface to WordPress…
My greetcard form is wider than my theme. What can I do?
To adjust the design of your greetingcard page edit the file wp-greet.css. If you have a narrow theme you might adjust the width of the textarea textarea.wp-greet-form { width: 90%; } by replacing the 90% with something smaller than this.
How can I use the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin with wp-greet?
Upload the unzipped directory “math-comment-spam-protection” on your webspace into wp-content/plugins and activate the plugin. Under Settings -> Math Comment Spam klick “Update Options” once even without having changed any options, otherwise the plugin won’t work. You don’t have to change the text of the error messages, as these are fixed within wp-greet.
I want to use WordPress media gallery but the links of the images don’t work. What can I do?
Please set the link target of the WordPress galleries to “media file” in the gallery options.
Changelog
New flexible settings for all mail addresses fixed reschedule future cards and fixed single quotes in message and subject
v6.3 (2025-01-19)
- fixed problems with resend functions when called via verify
- fixed security issue with wrong nonce
- improved code compliance to WordPress standards
- removed old bwcard stuff
v6.2 (2023-03-03)
- fixed html error in admin dialog
- come closer to WP coding standards
v6.1 (2021-12-19)
- replaced dtpicker from Trend Richardson with flatpickr because dtpicker is not longer supported
- fixed a typo with determine timezone of visitor
v6.0 (2021-05-02)
- fixed a typo in html of wpg-form.php
- make wp-greet recognize gutenberg gallery blocks again
- renamed a check_email function which misses the wpg_ prefix in its name
v5.9 (2020-11-18)
- extend support for PHPMailer 6 in newer WordPress releases
- fixed some PHP notices about undefined index
v5.8 (2020-09-18)
- fixed deprecated function each since PHP7.2
- use PHPMailer 6 if on WP >= 5.5
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FAQ
wp-greet: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 28, 2026
Is wp-greet free?
Yes. wp-greet is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is wp-greet safe to use in 2026?
wp-greet works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 50+ sites, is rated 4.9/5 and was last updated 10 months ago, and scores 52/100 on our health check.
How many websites use wp-greet?
wp-greet is active on 50+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 35,695 times since it launched in April 2008. It was downloaded 105 times in the last 30 days.
Does wp-greet work with WordPress 7.1?
wp-greet is officially tested up to WordPress 6.9.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was wp-greet last updated?
The latest version, 6.3, was released on December 6, 2025 (10 months ago).
Who makes wp-greet?
wp-greet is developed and maintained by tuxlog.
What are the best alternatives to wp-greet?
The most popular alternatives to wp-greet are Event Block (1K+ installs), Virtuaria PagBank / PagSegu… (1K+ installs) and Wikipedia Preview (1K+ installs).
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