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Smartarget Message Bar vs Popup for Contact Form 7

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

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

Active-install trajectory

Popup for Contact Form 7 moved down one install band, 800+ to 700+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Smartarget Message Bar	Popup for Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	—	700–800 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	—	800+ → 700+ ✓
Overall health	—	D · 43 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	95/100 ✓	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	70/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	3.8★ ✓
Reviews	0	6 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100 ✓	38/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	High
Last updated	4mo ago ✓	8.6y ago
Downloads, last 30d	47	178 ✓
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.	-38%	+17%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	—	2.4% ✓
Category	Privacy & Consent	Forms

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

Release activity

Smartarget Message BarPopup 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.