Contact Form 7 – Phone mask field
by Ruslan Heorhiiev · Forms
Also makes 1 other plugin · 20.0K+ installs across the portfolio →
This plugin adds a new field in which you can set the phone number mask or other to Contact Form 7.
47 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.19.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2060 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
544
now · peak 1.1K
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2019-09-05 · 1,425 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 1.0 First released version. 1.0
- — Version 1.1 Added support for the placeholder field. 1.1
- — Version 1.2 Added a form-tag generator field for the placeholder value. 1.2
- — Version 1.3 Added support for the type value. 1.3
- — Version 1.4 Remove autoclear. Added filter “wpcf7mf_validate_mask_units”. Mask definition “*” changed to “.” 1.4
- — Version 1.4.1 Removed any character mask definition (“.”) 1.4.1
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 3 at 90% or more · development strings
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-11-30 30K+ → 20K+ down after 286 days in tier
- 2024-02-18 20K+ → 30K+ up after 44 days in tier
- 2024-01-05 30K+ → 20K+ down after 18 days in tier
- 2023-12-18 20K+ → 30K+ up after 387 days in tier
- 2022-11-26 30K+ → 20K+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Masks Form Fields 9K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Smart Phone Field For WPForms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Elementor Forms, WooCommerce, Formidable Forms, Ninja Forms 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Telephone Input For Contact Form 7 700+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7 600K+ installs · 5.0★ · 1 shared tag A -
Redirection for Contact Form 7 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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