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Contact Form 7 Email Validation

Contact Form 7 Email Validation has urgent issues capping its growth.

1K+ installs 3.3★ · 10 99/30d -2%

Versus 307 tracked Email & Marketing plugins: health 41 vs avg 76 · rating 3.63★ vs 4.15★.

What we found

1 critical 1 to fix 1 opportunity

Likely abandoned

Critical

No update in 68 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.

Recommended: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Rating below category benchmark

Needs work

Your adjusted 3.63★ trails the Email & Marketing average of 4.15★.

Recommended: Close the gap with targeted UX fixes and review recovery.

Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 10 ratings. A handful of reviews makes your star average fragile and weakens trust at install time.

Recommended: Run a structured in-plugin review prompt and a review campaign.

Grow with WP Mayor

Close the gaps above, then put Contact Form 7 Email Validation in front of the right audience.

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