Contact Form 7 Widget
by Strategy11 Team · Forms
Also makes 5 other plugins · 317.3K+ installs across the portfolio →
Use your Contact Form 7 forms and other shortcodes in your sidebars.
47 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.4, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3196 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
278
now · peak 371
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
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
16.9y ago
latest release · v1.0
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-09-20 · 1,450 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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ deskeater7.9y ago
This is a great plugin. It’s 2018 and the plugin still works like a charm!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ tonyenergywise8.4y ago
Thankyou so much for this awesome widget! I was trying for weeks to get a contact form working properly in the footer area of my site, tried various other plugins and code but none could fix the spacing and padding issues. This plugin works flawlessly, thankyou so much!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mladen Gradev10.4y ago
This plugin is really impressive. It is 7 years old, still version 1.0, with only one review and 20.000+ downloads!?! And it is working perfectly. I don’t know what to say, except good work.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cwendt0113.5y ago
…but there’s no alternative widget for contact form 7, wtf. It works just fine with my 3.5.1 website though, so I guess this is the only option! :\
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-07-03 3K+ → 2K+ down after 370 days in tier
- 2024-06-28 4K+ → 3K+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2024-06-25 3K+ → 4K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2024-06-22 4K+ → 3K+ down after 307 days in tier
- 2023-08-20 5K+ → 4K+ down after 245 days in tier
- 2022-12-18 6K+ → 5K+ 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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