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Email Validator for Contact Form 7 vs GEV Email Validator

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

Email Validator for Contact Form 7 is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Email Validator for Contact Form 7 moved down one install band, 500+ to 400+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Email Validator for Contact Form 7	GEV Email Validator
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	400–500 ✓	—
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-20% ✓	—
Overall health	B · 83 ✓	—
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	73/100 ✓	—
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	—
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.9★ ✓	—
Reviews	4 ✓	0
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	89/100 ✓	40/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	High
Last updated	2mo ago ✓	5.7y ago
Downloads, last 30d	274 ✓	34
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.	-27%	-31%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	2.2% ✓	—
Category	Forms	Email & Marketing

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

Release activity

Email Validator for Contact Form 7GEV Email Validator

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.