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Online Payments vs Contact Form 7

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

Contact Form 7 is the safest pick: health A · 85 against 58 for Online Payments, led by stronger maintenance.

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	Online Payments	Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	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	C · 58	A · 85 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	36/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	79/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.2★ ✓
Reviews	5	125 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	66/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1.6y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	290	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.	+21%	+97%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	1.4% ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

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

Release activity

Online PaymentsContact 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.