Gravity Forms: Post Updates

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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.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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 21 Oct 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share 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.

Crossed into this band 12 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ dcrunningguy

   8.6y ago

   I’m not getting error messages, but it simply won’t work. Tried for hours. And let me get on my high horse for just a moment and rant a little. I appreciate free plugins and the effort that goes into them (and maintaining). But why go through the effort if you have virtually zero follow-up in support or maintaining? This dev is still around (I looked), but has abandoned this. And it is a great idea and much needed, but appears to be largely non-functioning. Perhaps it does function (and a couple people in support say it is or was), but the instructions are poorly laid out. Which brings me to my second and perhaps most important point of this rant/review. This dev could not have done a worse job in explaining how to set this up. I understand that if English isn’t your first language, things can be more challenging. But everything written on this plugin – top to bottom- gives little real pathway to actually having it work. There’s a bunch of hooks and shortcuts and, if you go the github, some additional info. But it is rambling and not linear. The installation instructions are fucking bullshit. No FAQs. No answering support…basically for years. And there isn’t that many submitted questions. For a plugin this potentially helpful to only have 1000 or so current installs lets you know it’s a fucking shit sandwich. And we see way too many shit sandwiches with WordPress. This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by dcrunningguy.

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2. ★★★★★ thenax

   9.1y ago

   it doesn’t work it gets a Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() error!

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3. ★★★★★ kalledrengennr1

   9.4y ago

   This fantastic plugin is a life saver combining the flexibility of GF with the ability to have your users edit their own stuff front end. Thanks a zillion to the developers!

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4. ★★★★★ Clicknathan

   10.0y ago

   Thank you, your work is wonderfully appreciated. Makes updating content easy for users on the front end.

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5. ★★★★★ maelga

   10.8y ago

   This could have been a great plugin, but unfortunately it does not have the functionality to change a post status once it edited/resubmitted. This means the plugin does not support a workflow requiring a review (“pending review”). The post status remains identical whether the post is edited or not. It would be very useful to enable saving the post under the post status set in GF. It is currently not the case.

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6. ★★★★★ nasimnet

   11.7y ago

   tnx man

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7. ★★★★★ Russell Aaron

   11.8y ago

   THIS PLUGIN IS AWESOME! It does everything I need it to do. Only issue is that some user roles can do anything, and some can’t do anything.

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8. ★★★★★ ChaseReplogle

   12.2y ago

   There are some other options for editing gravity form posts, but I think this one has quickly outpaced the others. I highly recommend it.

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

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-11-12 400+ → 300+ down after 5 days in tier
2. 2025-11-07 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in tier
3. 2025-11-02 400+ → 300+ down after 337 days in tier
4. 2024-11-30 500+ → 400+ down after 338 days in tier
5. 2023-12-28 600+ → 500+ down after 3 days in tier
6. 2023-12-25 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2023-12-24 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2023-12-23 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Gravity Forms: Post Updates: 300+ active installs, 4.5★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gravity-forms-post-updates