Contact Form 7 vs Masks Form Fields

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

Contact Form 7

by Ruslan Heorhiiev

Health D47

Masks Form Fields

by Petermann

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

Contact Form 7 Masks Form Fields

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	Contact Form 7	Masks Form Fields
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20K–30K ✓	9K–10K
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-10%
Overall health	D · 47	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	99/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	82/100	92/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.24★	4.62★ ✓
Reviews	24 ✓	23
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	50/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	5.6y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	539	832 ✓
Category	Forms	Forms

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

Release activity

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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.