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Contact Form 7 vs Masks Form Fields

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

Masks Form Fields is the safest pick: health A · 90 against 47 for Contact Form 7, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Masks Form Fields moved down one install band, 10K+ to 9K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Contact Form 7	Masks Form Fields
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20K–30K ✓	9K–10K
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	10K+ → 9K+
Overall health	D · 47	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	82/100	92/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.2★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	24 ✓	23
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	48/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	5.8y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	909	1K ✓
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.	+30%	+19%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	19% ✓	11%
Category	Forms	Forms

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

Release activity

Contact Form 7Masks Form Fields

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.