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Contact Form 7 Get and Show Parameter from URL

by Chad Huntley · Forms

Get or show parameters from the URL directly within the Contact Form 7 plugin

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 63 average across 1,679 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

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

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4198 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

+80% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

88

now · peak 110

8430d 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 Get a · #7477 you Database Addon for C · #108 Redirection for Cont · #211 ReCaptcha v2 for Con · #226

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.

105per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

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

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.5y ago

latest release · v0.9.7

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.9.7 · 11.5y ago0.9.6 · 12.5y ago0.9.5 · 12.7y ago

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.

v0.9 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “800+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
800–900 ≈850

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

Install history · since 2019-11-21 · 1,419 observations

800Installs · 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
0.9.7
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2013-12-22 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. AAA
    9.8y ago

    Just works fine. Usage: 1. Create a form 7 as usual. 2. Then insert the form within your page: [contact-form-7 id="9999" title="Your Form"] 3. Then within form 7 FORM editor, you can use: [showparam productname] // this will just insert as text [getparam productname] // this will insert a hidden field which you can use later 4. Within form 7 EMAIL, you can use (along side with other form 7 code): Product name: [productname] Message Body: [your-message] You call the form within web browser like so: http YOURSITE/form/?productname=HelloWorld This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by AAA.

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  2. michauko
    9.9y ago

    Just does the trick. You can get a $_GET value to check, for example, a key/mail consistency in an “unsubscribe form”. Thanks

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  3. Dexter800
    11.1y ago

    It works! It works! Thank you

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  4. amm82
    11.3y ago

    thanks

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  5. Allen Tullett
    11.6y ago

    This is great. Using the MailChimp merge tags this makes things a lot more fun. Cheers for this.

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  6. Kevin Steve
    11.9y ago

    Tested this on the latest version of WordPress which is 4.0 and it works great!

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  7. pepperhorn
    12.6y ago

    Thanks for a great mod!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2026-05-28 900+ → 800+ down after 186 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-22 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-21 1K+ → 900+ down

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