Dropdown Search Option for Contact Form 7
by howdytheme · Forms
Also makes 19 other plugins · 5.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
Add a live search box to your Contact Form 7 dropdown menus. Let users instantly filter and find options by typing — no extra setup, no shortcode chan …
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
300+
≈350 estimated
Momentum
+3%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “dropdown search”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →8.1%
of downloads still active
At least 300 of 3.7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Forms plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,671 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Forms 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 127 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; the current branch is 7.1
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: No reviews yet. wp.org scores an unrated plugin as middling on rating, so the first good reviews lift it.
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.
35
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.6
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
14%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| searchable dropdown your tag | #3 | #18 | 0 |
| dropdown search your tag | #13 | #23 | — |
| cf7 dropdown your tag | #19 | #22 | — |
| product dropdown cf7 | #10 | #22 | 0 |
| contact form 7 your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| select field search your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
18 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 14 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “dropdown search”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “select field search” isn't earning a slot. You list it, but you're not in the first 24 results for that search. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 6 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 169 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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.
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.
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 “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 11 months ago; the previous band took 19 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 5 Oct 2022
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
8 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Add a live search box to your Contact Form 7 dropdown menus. Let users instantly filter and find options by..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 11 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 11 of 11 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("ideal for", "perfect for").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Contact Form 7.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 4,721 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "select field search" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-06 400+ → 300+ down after 557 days in tier
- 2024-05-28 300+ → 400+ up after 156 days in tier
- 2023-12-24 200+ → 300+ up after 121 days in tier
- 2023-08-25 100+ → 200+ up after 147 days in tier
- 2023-03-31 90+ → 100+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2023-03-26 80+ → 90+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2023-03-14 70+ → 80+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2023-03-02 60+ → 70+ up after 20 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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Contact Form 7 10M+ installs · 4.0★ B -
WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ installs · 4.8★ A -
Flamingo 800K+ installs · 4.2★ A -
Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 800K+ installs · 4.8★ A -
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ installs · 4.8★ A -
Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7 600K+ installs · 5.0★ A
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