Contact Form X

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Joost abrahams

   9mo ago

   This plugin sets the standard for helpfull and meaningfull use of the help tab. Jeff made it very easy to setup the plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ kp

   10mo ago

   I’ve used his plugins before, paid and unpaid, and they are just top quality across the board. With so many endless bloated form plugins, this is like a stiletto cutting through the muck. And now it has support for Cloudflare Turnstile! Keeping it completely up to date. I have no idea why it doesn’t have 10k downloads, but it should.

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3. ★★★★★ dovis721

   1.5y ago

   Great minimalist plugin. As a web developer i like it.

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4. ★★★★★ paulman

   2.2y ago

   Straight forward installation – and looks clean and efficient when installed on the website.

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5. ★★★★★ kmp2

   3.1y ago

   I discovered something amazing about this contact X plugin that I had not been aware of when I installed it. It drops the most recent 10 messages into your wordpress dashboard! What a brilliant idea. In fact, I had probably deleted an important message by mistake from my email account, only to luckily find a copy posted on my dashboard. Talk about save the day. That’s how I discovered this terrific feature. What an excellent idea. I would highly recommend this plugin to anyone who wants to really know what’s going on in their own web site.

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6. ★★★★★ Gerard Blanco

   3.5y ago

   What a great plugin. I’m just so tired of all the other contact forms, all bloated, loading their own styles. And then I saw this gem. Simple, yet powerful. Has anti-spam integrated, which, unfortunately, it’s mandatory to have nowadays Registers all email in the database, including if the user agreed to the terms, mandatory for GDPR reasons. Doesn’t force its own UI. Following WP guidelines. Amazing. Just amazing.

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7. ★★★★★ Skylabb

   3.9y ago

   Sometimes you just need to setup a simple contact form and not having to install a plugin that comes with all the bells and whistles you don’t need. Form X is for this purpose. I like the simplicity and yet powerful ways to style the form. Being able to modify form CSS right in the admin screen is a great approach. The challenge question option is also a great spam buster if you don’t want to deal with creating a Google account for reCaptcha. Though I hope it’s just as effective? One thing I would improve is adding instruction how to display the form. There’s a short code for it, but I had to come to the WordPress plugin page to find it. Why not just include this simple piece of info somewhere on one of the UI screens so users don’t have to make a trip somewhere else to find it? Per plugin description, I wouldn’t say contact form “reinvented.” Rather, get back to the basics and being solidly good at one thing – the contact form. This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Skylabb. This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Skylabb.

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8. ★★★★★ jedhenson

   4.6y ago

   Works great, feels fast and light.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Contact Form X <= 2.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-02-25 CVE-2022-25601 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.4 Patched in 2.4.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 6 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-05-10 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2026-05-07 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-05-06 400+ → 300+ down after 6 days in tier
4. 2026-04-30 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-29 400+ → 300+ 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).

• Contact Form Email 8K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A
• VS Contact Form 7K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Generate PDF using Contact Form 7 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• Contact Form Query 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• C Contact Form 7 add confirm 50K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
• Gravity PDF 20K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B

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Contact Form X: 300+ active installs, 5.0★ (32 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/contact-form-x