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Contact Form Dashboard vs Database Addon for Contact Form 7

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

Database Addon for Contact Form 7 is the safest pick: health A · 92 against 45 for Contact Form Dashboard, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Contact Form DashboardDatabase Addon 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	Contact Form Dashboard	Database Addon for Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	70–80	600K–700K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-22%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 45	A · 92 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	99/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	5.0★ ✓
Reviews	3	1,875 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	100/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	9.6y ago	29d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	86	420.4K ✓
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.	-6%	+147%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.9%	6.4% ✓
Category	Forms	Forms

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

Release activity

Contact Form DashboardDatabase Addon 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.