Contact Form 7 CiviCRM integration

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3.6 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ phillalf

   1.7y ago

   They hint that you need to set various fields but dont let tell what the are. So the example they give doesnt work.It requires documentation that shows a correctly developed from along with the required CiviCrm settings

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2. ★★★★★ Phil McKerracher

   4.4y ago

   Since I got this working (with some quick and helpful advice from the author) it has worked very well. I love the flexibility of the API/form processor approach, which basically lets you do anything API v3 can do. The functionality is better than the Caldera Forms it replaced and it’s free! The catch is it’s really quite difficult to set up because the documentation is incomplete and debugging is difficult (the “API REST Log” extension in CiviCRM looks useful but I couldn’t get it to work). The two big “gotchas” that caught me were the example CiviCRM path was wrong for WordPress (should be wp-json/civicrm/v3/rest) and the names of the form fields must match the entity names in the API, some of which (custom fields) are quite hard to discover. The problem is, there are a lot of things you have to get right (paths, permissions, API keys, variable names, API and PHP versions) and there are so many permutations of all of these that if it doesn’t work you can spend days and days googling for clues and tearing hair out.

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Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2023-03-30 300+ → 200+ down after 82 days in tier
2. 2023-01-07 200+ → 300+ up

Competes with

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Contact Form 7 CiviCRM integration: 200+ active installs, 2.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/contact-form-7-civicrm-integration