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Forms: 3rd-Party Integration

by zaus · Forms

Also makes 12 other plugins · 5.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Send contact form submissions from other plugins to multiple external services e.g. CRM. Configurable, custom field mapping, pre/post processing.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

D 51/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

5K+

≈5.5K estimated

Momentum

+45%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “cf7”, “contact form” and “contact form 7” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 65 average across 2,510 Forms plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

4.0%

of downloads still active

At least 5K of 125.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Forms plugin keeps 1.3%, across 1,667 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.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
7.1y ago
Added
2012-11-14 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
5.2.30
Requires PHP
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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.

48 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

Updated 2609 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 15/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.2.30; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 88/100

4.9★ over 31 reviews, smoothed to 4.41★

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2609 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+45% vs prior 30d
3431 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 717 · peaks are release surges

71731 Oct 2026

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

Forms: 3rd-Party Int · #3164youGravity PDF · #1248Void Contact Form 7 · #1459Contact Form 7 · #2164

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.931 Oct 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.

14331 Oct 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

7.1y ago

latest release · v1.8 · 9 Sep 2019

20

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8 · 9 Sep 20191.7.3 · 5 May 20171.7 · 14 Oct 20161.6.6.5 · 15 Sep 20161.6.6.4 · 6 Mar 20161.6.6.1 · 27 Jan 20161.6.6 · 19 Nov 20151.6.5.1 · 26 Oct 20151.6.4.3 · 2 Jul 20151.6.4 · 14 Apr 20151.6.3 · 10 Jan 20151.6.1 · 11 Sep 20141.4.9 · 18 Jul 20141.4.7.2 · 31 Dec 2013

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 91%
v1.7 8.9%
v1.6 0.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “5K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
5K–6K ≈5.5K

Crossed into this band 13 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 30 Mar 2015

5K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ swissspaceboy
    5.1y ago

    Excellent free plugin to send your emails contacts to SugarCRM or SuiteCRM like I do. Works perfectly for years. Keep this supported, please.

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  2. ★★★★★ skop81
    5.3y ago

    Fantastic plugin, very useful and most important thing: still works in WordPress. Now I’m using WordPress 5.7.2 and this plugin still works very well! I’ve just one suggestion: keep updated this plugin, please!!! 😉

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  3. ★★★★★ kramer842
    6.6y ago

    Works as good as any paid plugin–without requiring you to add your account credentials. Providing a plugin developer with admin accounts logins for a company’s CRM platform is a disaster waiting to happen. Not saying those premium plugin companies would do anything malicious but hard to warrant the risk when using POST or GET and OIDs with hooks to transfer the data and tying to a campaign keeps the account safe. Word of advice… if you’re getting redirect errors make sure you don’t use hyphens or underscores in the source field ID and select “Enable data forwarding to the success location” in the Pardot form handler.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ Webprom Design
    6.8y ago

    Excellent plugin, should make UI a bit better

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  5. ★★★★★ mc_deimon
    7.0y ago

    It is a great plugin! I use it to join Ninja Forms with Mailrelay and it works perfectly.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ Mahfuzul Hasan
    8.1y ago

    I have tested with Salesforce and it works fine. Thanks.

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  7. ★★★★★ jyonan
    8.4y ago

    I needed to fill pdf forms and email them to users of my site. I am not a php programmer and needed to submit form fields to a C# .Net application that filled in the pdf fields and then emailed the filled and flattened pdf file to the person submitting the form. Forms: Third-Party Integration worked perfectly and I was able to integrate Gravity Forms with my external custom app in about an hour (I had a lot of fields). Please keep this app going and up to date…it is a lifesaver!!!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ★★★★★ Anonymous User 15528382
    9.0y ago

    This plugin allow to integrate easily CF7 and other contact form plugins with 3rd party services. Works like a charm!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.8 copy service button Ninja Forms are back! Can use Ninja Forms plugin v3.0+ again. 1.8
  2. — Version 1.7.9 debug message truncation with configure hooks use hook ...debug_truncation to set field length limits for each section 1.7.9
  3. — Version 1.7.8 adding per-service delimiter, supports newlines ‘add new service’ button after metaboxes minor ui fixes 1.7.8
  4. — Version 1.7.7 destination mapping is textarea to make other plugins easier (e.g. newlines in xpost formatting), hooks ..._service_mappings_headers and ..._service_mappings_values to add more columns 1.7.7
  5. — Version 1.7.6 exposing http method (get/post); result redirection 1.7.6
  6. — Version 1.7.5 late-bind GF confirmation for script tags 1.7.5

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

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 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Send contact form submissions from other plugins to multiple external services e.g. CRM. Configurable, cust..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 16 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 16 of 16 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Mailchimp and 5 more.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 13 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 7,046 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-10-21 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-20 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-10-19 6K+ → 5K+ down after 270 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-22 7K+ → 6K+ down after 71 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-12 8K+ → 7K+ down after 291 days in tier
  6. 2024-01-26 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-01-25 8K+ → 9K+ up after 6 days in tier
  8. 2024-01-19 9K+ → 8K+ down 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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Forms: 3rd-Party Integration: 5K+ active installs, 4.9★ (31 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/forms-3rdparty-integration

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