Autocomplete Google places vs Autocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Autocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7 and Autocomplete Google places are close on health (A · 88 vs A · 85). Autocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7 has the stronger rating quality.

Autocomplete Google places

by Kais Chrouda

Health A85

Autocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7

by theme funda

Health A88

Active-install trajectory

Autocomplete Google placesAutocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Autocomplete Google places	Autocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	1K–2K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+150% ✓	Stable
Overall health	A · 85	A · 88 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100	88/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	3	13 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	87/100	93/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2mo ago	12d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	217	764 ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+2%	+28%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	3.3%	4.6% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Forms

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Autocomplete Google placesAutocomplete Location Field for Contact Form 7

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.