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UniqueID for Contact Form 7

by Ewald Harmsen · Forms

Also makes 1 other plugin · 2K+ installs across the portfolio →

An add-on for Contact Form 7 to add an unique id to every form submission.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
39 Health · F
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 59/100
Support 70/100

39 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.0.

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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1976 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

+51% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

203

now · peak 261

20430d 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

UniqueID for Contact · #4847 you Database Addon for C · #108 Redirection for Cont · #211 ReCaptcha v2 for Con · #226

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

102per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.4 92%
v2.3 5.4%
Older / other versions 2.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-02-03 · 1,425 observations

2KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
2.4.0
Last updated
5.4y ago
Added
2019-01-16 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0.0
Tested up to
5.7.0
Requires PHP
5.2.4

Recent reviews

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  1. Shane Muirhead
    4.6y ago

    This plugin work’s fine, be sure to be submitting the form without /#wpcf7-f650-p652-o1 appended to the URL since this will not be classed as a new form submission and won’t increment the submission ID. i.e the same person is not going to fill out the form twice if they do the ID’s will be the same. I’ve installed and tested this and it works fine as long as you properly start a new form submission after the first submit… This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Shane Muirhead.

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  2. zakgreene
    4.7y ago

    Using the “starting number” feature, I submitted several forms and the number never incremented. As many others have said, it simply didn’t work. Don’t use.

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  3. sumsarisum
    5.4y ago

    Plugin simply didn’t work. Counter did not increment. Don’t bother.

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  4. kuwjr
    5.9y ago

    this plugin doesnt work properly

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  5. ms.yna
    6.0y ago

    Unique ID doesn’t work/increment. Every time I submit a form, it keeps displaying the same submission ID Starting number.

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  6. Louise Harris
    6.0y ago

    Thanks for a great plugin, this works perfectly well for me, just what I needed! Keep up the great work 🙂

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  7. ankeshanand
    6.1y ago

    I tried adding it and Critical security error happened on My WordPress Site. I have to go through Recovery Mode and delete the Plugin. “”” When seeking help with this issue, you may be asked for some of the following information: WordPress version 5.4.2 Current theme: WP Store (version 1.1.5) Current plugin: Contact Form 7 – Submission id (version 2.1.0) PHP version 7.4.7 Error Details ============= An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 16 of the file /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/cf7-submission-id/cf7-submission-id.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wpcf7_add_form_tag() in /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/cf7-submission-id/cf7-submission-id.php:16 Stack trace: #0 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): cf7_submission_id_init(”) #1 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #2 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-settings.php(403): do_action(‘plugins_loaded’) #4 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-config.php(90): require_once(‘/home/cloudmat/…’) #5 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-load.php(37): require_once(‘/home/cloudmat/…’) #6 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-admin/admin.php(34): require_once(‘/home/cloudmat/…’) #7 /home/cloudmat/apexpolymerspackaging.com/wp-admin/plugins.php(10): require_once(‘/home/cloudmat/…’) “””

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  8. Invizogen
    6.3y ago

    For simple submission ID should be enough, tnx!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 2.4.0 Not dependent on jQuery anymore Only increments on success 2.4.0
  2. Version 2.3.0 Bugfix when submitting multiple forms at the same time Added the cf7_submission_id_filter 2.3.0
  3. Version 2.2.5 only load js when needed 2.2.5
  4. Version 2.2.1 bugfix when no id field in contact form 2.2.1
  5. Version 2.2.0 Bug fix to take initial value into account 2.2.0
  6. Version 2.1.0 Bug fix to be compatible with CF7 5.2 and higher 2.1.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7

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

  1. 2024-03-19 3K+ → 2K+ down after 7 days in tier
  2. 2024-03-12 2K+ → 3K+ up after 4 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-03-07 2K+ → 3K+ up after 4 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-03 3K+ → 2K+ down after 3 days in tier
  6. 2024-02-29 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-02-28 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

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