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Easy Digital Downloads vs Contact Form 7

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

Easy Digital Downloads is the safest pick: health A · 98 against 85 for Contact Form 7, led by stronger support.

Active-install trajectory

Contact Form 7 moved down one install band, 8K+ to 7K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Easy Digital Downloads	Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40K–50K ✓	7K–8K
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	8K+ → 7K+
Overall health	A · 98 ✓	A · 85
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	93/100 ✓	79/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	100/100 ✓	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.7★ ✓	4.2★
Reviews	592 ✓	125
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	99/100 ✓	96/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5d ago ✓	1mo ago
Downloads, last 30d	60.7K ✓	6K
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.	+73%	+97%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.6%	1.4% ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

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

Release activity

Easy Digital DownloadsContact 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.