Contact Form Sortcode Selection vs Contact Form 7

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

Contact Form Sortcode Selection

by commercepundit

Health D45

Contact Form 7

by Rock Lobster Inc.

Health B80

Active-install trajectory

Contact Form Sortcode Selection 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 Sortcode Selection	Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	10M–20M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 45	B · 80 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	75/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	56/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.99★	4.02★ ✓
Reviews	2	2,179 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	27/100	81/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	8.8y ago	14d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	72	4.2M ✓
Category	Forms	Forms

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

Release activity

Contact Form Sortcode Selection 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.