Form Flight Recorder
by Luke W · Forms
Also makes 10 other plugins · 10+ installs across the portfolio →
Catches the form notification that was never generated and the form that quietly stopped submitting - the two failures a mail log cannot show.
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
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
—
not reported yet
Momentum
+6%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “alerts” and “contact form” for “flight” and “recorder”. “alerts” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “flight” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “contact form” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “recorder” sits at #18 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
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 8 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
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.
51
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.6
Velocity
places per keyword, 19d
43%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 19d
+0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| flight | #9 | #13 | up 2 |
| recorder | #18 | #18 | 0 |
| alerts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| contact form your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| form notifications your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| monitoring your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| submission log your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 5 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 “alerts” and “contact form” for “flight” and “recorder”. “alerts” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “flight” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “contact form” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “recorder” sits at #18 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 31 Aug 2026 · 61 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 149 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #49,700 to #68,000, alongside the other plugins with fewer than 10 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.
Estimated active installs
wp.org publishes an install count once a plugin has enough of them. This one has none yet.
wp.org reports no install count for this plugin yet.
Install history since 15 Sep 2026
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Catches the form notification that was never generated and the form that quietly stopped submitting - the t..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 6 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 6 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("for agencies"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms and 5 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 7 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 6,880 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("form notifications", "monitoring", "submission log" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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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Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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