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Contact Form 7 Syntax Highlighting

by Joris van Montfort · Forms

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Adds syntax higlighting to the Contact Form 7 admin screens. Requires the Contact Form 7 plugin.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.4K estimated

8.0K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.27★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 6 reviews

+46%

165

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.21.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2293 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+46% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

165

now · peak 232

15930d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Contact Form 7 Synta · #6428 you HTML Editor for Cont · #5154 Database Addon for C · #108 Redirection for Cont · #211

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

159per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
1K–2K ≈1.4K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2019-11-14 · 1,419 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 6 reviews

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5★
6 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.2.4
Last updated
6.3y ago
Added
2016-03-24 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0.1
Tested up to
5.4.21
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Amr Ali
    2.8y ago

    Thank you

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  2. ★★★★★ bmcconach
    5.9y ago

    With all of the amazing syntax highlighting features that are in a great deal of plugins, it always underwhelmed me when I got to my CF7 editor and was greeted with a plain text editor. I figured there was no hope for it until I decided to Google-foo my way to a solution; that solution is the plugin you’re looking at. Stop searching, this is all you’ll need! Many, many kudos to the developer!

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  3. ★★★★★ Patrice
    6.3y ago

    It is a good plugin, it does what it says and help us to read our code.

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  4. ★★★★★ xsonic
    9.3y ago

    Simply works. Thanks a lot! This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by xsonic.

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  5. ★★★★★ jensnilsson
    9.7y ago

    Works as expected.

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  6. ★★★★★ Anonymous User 10708267
    10.4y ago

    I like this plugin a lot! Thanks!

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4.1

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

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