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Gravity Forms: Post Updates

by Jupitercow · Forms

Also makes 7 other plugins · 510+ installs across the portfolio →

Allows you to use Gravity Forms to update any post on the front end.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 63 average across 1,678 Forms plugins

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.

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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 68/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4077 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+34% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

75

now · peak 99

7530d 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: Post · #10561 you DJD Site Post · #14439 Schedule Post Change · #410 Gravity Forms Zero S · #447

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · 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.

250per 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

11.2y ago

latest release · v1.2.23

17

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.23 · 11.2y ago1.2.22 · 11.2y ago1.2.20 · 11.2y ago1.2.18 · 11.5y ago1.2.17 · 11.5y ago1.2.16 · 11.5y ago1.2.14 · 11.5y ago1.2.13 · 12.0y ago1.2.11 · 12.0y ago1.2.10 · 12.0y ago1.2.9 · 12.0y ago1.2.8 · 12.1y ago1.2.7 · 12.1y ago1.2.6 · 12.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈380

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-06-20 · 1,391 observations

300Installs · 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
1.2.23
Last updated
11.2y ago
Added
2014-05-17 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6.1
Tested up to
4.2.39
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. dcrunningguy
    8.4y 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
    8.9y ago

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

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  3. kalledrengennr1
    9.3y 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
    9.8y ago

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

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  5. maelga
    10.7y 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
    11.6y ago

    tnx man

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  7. Russell Aaron
    11.6y 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
    12.1y 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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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

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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