Contact Form Zero
by Web Guy · Email & Marketing
Also makes 30 other plugins · 31.6K+ installs across the portfolio →
Add a stupidly simple and lightweight contact form to your website with [contact-form-zero].
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
40+
≈40 estimated
Momentum
+11%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “anti spam” for “zero”. “anti spam” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “zero” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
83 health vs 66 average across 2,120 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.4%
of downloads still active
At least 40 of 2.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,294 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 105 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →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.
48
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 25d
40%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 25d
+0.6
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| zero | #4 | #21 | up 1 |
| form c | #11 | #23 | down 1 |
| anti spam your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| contact form your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| email your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| feedback your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| quote your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “anti spam” for “zero”. “anti spam” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “zero” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 198 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #21,400 to #22,800, alongside the other plugins at 40+ 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 21 Oct 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 38% 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 “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 40.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 760 days.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Trumani6.3y ago
Plugin does exactly what I need it to.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Add a stupidly simple and lightweight contact form to your website with [contact-form-zero]."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you need"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Contact Form 7, Cloudflare.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,623 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "feedback", "quote" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-26 30+ → 40+ up after 25 days in tier
- 2026-10-01 40+ → 30+ down after 18 days in tier
- 2026-09-13 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-09-10 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-09-05 30+ → 40+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 40+ → 30+ down after 86 days in tier
- 2026-06-06 30+ → 40+ up after 119 days in tier
- 2026-02-07 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
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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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Gravity PDF 20K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms & Comments 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Contact Form Email 8K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
VS Contact Form 6K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Generate PDF using Contact Form 7 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
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