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Gravity Forms Directory

by Zack Katz · Forms

Also makes 18 other plugins · 12.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add directory capabilities and other functionality to the great Gravity Forms plugin.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
40 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 60/100
Support 70/100

40 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.19.

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

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 75/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2090 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

189

now · peak 409

18230d downloads · Aug 26

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

Gravity Forms Direct · #8649 you Gravity Forms CSS Re · #3392 GravityWP · #3477 Gravity Forms + Stri · #8377

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.2Stars · Aug 26

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.

364per 1k installs · Aug 26

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

5.7y ago

latest release · v4.2

66

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.2 · 5.7y ago4.1.3 · 8.4y ago4.1.2 · 8.4y ago4.1.1 · 8.4y ago4.1.0.1 · 8.5y ago4.1 · 8.5y ago4.0 · 8.5y ago3.8.1 · 10.0y ago3.8 · 10.7y ago3.7.2 · 11.3y ago3.7.1 · 11.7y ago3.7 · 11.7y ago3.6.3 · 11.9y ago3.6.2 · 11.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 70% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.2 70%
v4.1 14%
v3.8 12%
v3.7 3.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
500–600 ≈560

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-03-11 · 1,439 observations

500Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
4.2
Last updated
5.7y ago
Added
2009-11-05 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
5.6.19
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. mauricen
    8.9y ago

    I ave been through the forums and blogs and there is a common issue with the later versions of WP… there seems to be no way to edit an entry in the Gravity Forms database. And it also seems that nobody is chiming in to help people with this problem. Oh well, what a shame. Uninstall

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  2. shockdav
    9.2y ago

    very good This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by shockdav.

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  3. Sam
    9.5y ago

    I’ve been using gravity forms for a while now and it a great way to make forms and set up conditional logic. But I am not happy with their support. They don’t offer a lot solutions and mostly tell you to install a certain plugin to see if there’s some conflicting plugins or the they ask you to turn off all your plugins to find the issue. These are not reasonable solutions for a large multisite or really any site. I struggled for a few months with an upload issue that could have been resolved in a few days. But the support team never directed to me the correct documentation on the api( which I found on my own months later). They simply told me to hire a backend developer (which we had) and assumed that it was a certificate issue(which I made sure it was not). But overall for a paid service I find it unreliable because I do come across random issues that support isn’t able to help me with.

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  4. Hitesh69
    10.1y ago

    The setting for date format applied via Admin Dashboard is not working properly. I set it as dd-mm-yyyy but then also it shows mm/dd/yyyy. Is there any way to fix this?

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  5. vaughn771
    10.3y ago

    I’ve been using G-forms as my storefront tool, with payment linked to a PayPal Pro account. It was a bit of a struggle to get these two things connected (not that intuitive on the G-Form end of things) but that part works. What G-Forms does NOT do, however, is push any product data to PayPal. So, on the PayPal side of things, I see that something was purchased by someone on a certain date, but I have no idea WHAT it is! I’ve invested seven months in trying to resolve the issue. I’ve hired two different high-end coders who can’t find a fix. PayPal is set to receive this information, and the folks at Gravity Forms say that it should be moving over – but it isn’t. This, to me, seems like a bug worth G-Form investing some real time in solving, but that hasn’t happened. It has cost me a great deal of time and money. Now I need to find a new payment solution.

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  6. AGwebstudio
    10.4y ago

    I have paid my developer license last saturday, nearly one week and cannot contact them, I tried by support tickets, paypal claim, facebook and twitter… nothing!! I didnt get my key so i cannot use my developer license, I had to finish a job within this week and i couldn´t because that. So angry and upset with you guys!!

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  7. pcgs51
    10.7y ago

    The entries do not appear properly in the WP Dashboard. Submitted a support question and have not heard back for two weeks. I realize this is a free plugin but this does not motivate me to make a purchase of the pro version.

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  8. AmarjitBharath
    10.8y ago

    Easy to use and easily worth the money.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.3

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 129 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Spanish (Spain) 48%
Swedish 32%
Romanian 21%
Italian 20%
French (France) 15%
Dutch 14%
German 14%
English (Canada) 13%
Japanese 13%
Polish 13%
Portuguese (Brazil) 13%
Russian 13%
Turkish 13%
Danish 12%
Finnish 12%
Hungarian 12%
Portuguese (Portugal) 12%
Arabic 11%
Chinese (China) 11%
Czech 11%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 11%
Catalan 10%
English (UK) 10%
Greek 10%

Plus 105 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-24 600+ → 500+ down after 107 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-09 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-08 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-07 700+ → 600+ down after 181 days in tier
  5. 2025-11-07 800+ → 700+ down after 3 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-04 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-03 800+ → 700+ down after 179 days in tier
  8. 2025-05-08 900+ → 800+ down after 143 days in tier

Competes with

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