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Contact Form 7: Support Deprecated Settings

by Dave McHale · Forms

Provide continued support for on_sent_ok and on_submit within Contact Form 7's Additional Settings

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 64 average across 971 Forms plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, well behind 6.8.

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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3087 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-29% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

20

now · peak 58

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: Supp · #39100 Contact Form Email · #2346 VS Contact Form · #2708 Contact Form 7 add c · #755

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
0.4
Last updated
8.5y ago
Added
2017-12-14 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.9.29
Requires PHP
5.3

Growth timeline

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

No band crossings observed yet.

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