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Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms

by Happyforms · Forms

Best WordPress contact form, newsletter form and payment form builder without the sucky stuff — lost emails, pesky spam, leaky privacy and outsourced …

How scoring works →
88 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 86/100
Support 70/100

88 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins

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.

97 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

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

-75% vs prior 30d
172Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

3.9K

now · peak 63.6K

3.9K30d 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

Happyforms · #1281 you Gutena Forms · #1180 WPForms · #9 Fluent Forms · #83

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · 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.

196per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
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.

5

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v1.26.15

193

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.26.15 · 2mo ago1.26.14 · 3mo ago1.26.13 · 5mo ago1.26.12 · 9mo ago1.26.11 · 10mo agodelete · 1.3y ago1.26.10 · 1.3y ago1.26.9 · 1.3y ago1.26.8 · 1.5y ago1.26.7 · 1.5y ago1.26.6 · 1.5y ago1.26.5 · 1.6y ago1.26.4 · 1.6y ago1.26.3 · 1.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.26 77%
v1.25 7%
Older / other versions 16%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈29K

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

Install history · since 2018-05-10 · 1,468 observations

20KInstalls · 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 declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
1.26.15
Last updated
2mo ago
Added
2018-02-07 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent reviews

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  1. fee2016
    5mo ago

    Nicht nur, dass das Plugin nicht auf den neuesten WP Stand gebracht wird, es ist wohl eins der teuersten Plguins ever – wenn man bedenkt, dass man noch nicht mal eine reCapthca Integration ohne kostenpflichtiges Update machen kann. Einfach nur Abzocke – weg mit dem Ding! Eine Unverschämtheit Sollche Programmierer sollte man nicht unterstützen!

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  2. ggate
    1.3y ago

    Happyforms is incredibly easy to use and works exactly as promised. The support team is quick, friendly, and always goes the extra mile. Highly recommended for anyone needing reliable forms on WordPress.

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  3. Anonymous
    1.4y ago

    I have had Happy Forms for a long time, but I just recently started using it. The main feature in Pro is Logic Conditions. The integration with different email providers is good.First of all, Senditblue does not exist anymore under this name and should be renamed to BREVO. The form itself has limitations when it comes to fonts and spaces (it’s all or nothing), CSS did not do the job in my case. Spaces are the same. It is default, wide or narrow, but nothing in between. For example, I add checkboxes. It is impossible to adjust the distance between Lebel name and checkboxes. I had to add another checkboxes with different Lebel name because I needed. Again, everything is now kind of stuck together and very close. You can only adjust the default, wide or narrow.I prefer closer in this case then far apart, which makes the form longer. First of all not welcome on mobile view. Please add more options or make very clear tutorial how to adjust using CSS. Please add hCapture which is more privacy friendly for EU customers.Please integrate with Elementor if possible. I would like to add popup information on submission. Redirection to another page takes a long time. Redirect information is only in English. Can this be changed?The button color set in the style does not change on the website. It just shows black background and white text. (I suspect interference from another plugin, but not sure yet. I cleared the cache and cookies, but no luck. It stays black and white.I still give 5 stars because it does what it it supposed and I highly recommend it. This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by jppl. Reason: correction

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  4. waltergschwandner
    1.5y ago

    best support ever MANY THANKS TO LUAN!!! SIMPLY GREAT walter

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  5. andyclavi
    1.6y ago

    Had a functional problem with the color assignment within the form. Thanks to the very quick and extremely competent help, the problem was quickly resolved by support.Thanks at this point to the Happyforms support team,Andreas Clavadetscher, Switzerland

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  6. etcgroupuk
    1.6y ago

    We had a couple of queries regarding some bespoke features for Happyforms and made an enquiry during the holidays and Luan came back to us with a nice detailed response on how we can proceed with what we were looking to do. Very helpful and timely response. Thank you

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  7. devfirstmco
    3.1y ago

    We are very happy to use this plug-in tool on our website, we created a customer survey page with the very simple to use interface, and we have some technical difficult on how to capture the form data to feed to our in house developed API and save to DB; The supporting team are very knowledgeable and provide great details with code samples on how to extract the data as the way we wanted it. Bottom Line:Super easy to use, very powerful tool, excellent support!Thank you! This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by devfirstmco.

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  8. josephmidnight
    3.1y ago

    Quick support too! Thanks!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.26.15 Fixed: Unauthenticated HTML injection in email notifications via the referral link and IP address fields. Reported by minaruzzaman shovon and dyingman. May 27, 2026 1.26.15
  2. Version 1.26.14 Update: Compatibility with WordPress 7.0 Fixed: Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability in form submission values. March 30, 2026 1.26.14
  3. Version 1.26.13 Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.9.4. Fixed: Translation loading notice triggered on WordPress 6+. November 18, 2025 1.26.13
  4. Version 1.26.12 Update: Happyforms core functionality. November 12, 2025 1.26.12
  5. Version 1.26.11 Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.8.3 Fixed: Local File Inclusion vulnerability. May 12, 2025 1.26.11
  6. Version 1.26.10 Update: Compatibility with WordPress 6.8.1 April 28, 2025 1.26.10

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

7 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2026-07-09 CVE-2025-11977 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') Affects <= 1.26.12 Patched in 1.26.13
  2. 2026-06-04 CVE-2026-49768 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 1.26.13 Patched in 1.26.14
  3. 2024-11-20 CVE-2024-10054 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.26.2 Patched in 1.26.3
  4. 2024-08-29 CVE-2024-44063 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.26.0 Patched in 1.26.1
  5. 2024-01-31 CVE-2024-23521 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.25.10 Patched in 1.25.11
  6. 2023-11-27 CVE-2023-48752 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.25.9 Patched in 1.25.10
  7. 2023-01-13 CVE-2023-0096 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.21.1 Patched in 1.22.0

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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 20 languages, 8 at 90% or more

Dutch (Belgium) 100%
German 100%
German (Austria) 100%
German (Formal) 100%
German (Switzerland) 100%
German (Switzerland) Informal 100%
Russian 100%
Dutch 98%
Swedish 87%
Spanish (Spain) 63%
Spanish (Venezuela) 62%
Spanish (Mexico) 61%
French (France) 43%
Italian 43%
Slovak 43%
Hebrew 18%
Czech 7%
Arabic 3%
Dutch (Formal) 3%
Marathi 2%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-03-08 30K+ → 20K+ down after 583 days in tier
  2. 2023-08-03 40K+ → 30K+ down

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