Message Popup For Contact Form 7
by howdytheme · Forms
Also makes 19 other plugins · 5.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
Show a beautiful, fully customizable success popup notification on Contact Form 7 submission. Control colors, borders, size, button text, and auto-hid …
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Health
B 81/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.8K estimated
Momentum
+2%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Swap “form submission popup” for “message”. “form submission popup” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “message” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
81 health vs 65 average across 2,517 Forms plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →10%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 9.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Forms plugin keeps 1.3%, across 1,675 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.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 127 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; the current branch is 7.1
4.3★ over 3 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →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.
36
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
11%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact form 7 success message your tag | #6 | #20 | up 1 |
| message | #6 | #18 | 0 |
| success message | #3 | #11 | 0 |
| contact form 7 error message your tag | #11 | #24 | 0 |
| success popup message | #4 | #17 | 0 |
| success message popup | #4 | #16 | 0 |
| cf7 popup your tag | #12 | #22 | 0 |
| contact form 7 popup your tag | #14 | #22 | up 1 |
| success fail popup | #5 | #17 | 0 |
| form submission popup your tag | #20 | #24 | down 2 |
| error popup message | #7 | #22 | 0 |
| contact form 7 response message popup | #7 | #18 | — |
| cf7 custom validation message | #8 | #21 | down 2 |
| popup message | #9 | #22 | 0 |
| contact form 7 confirm | #9 | #18 | 0 |
| light contact form | #9 | #18 | 0 |
| website message | #10 | #22 | down 1 |
| popup message contact form 7 | #10 | #21 | — |
| error message | #10 | #24 | 0 |
| site message | #13 | #20 | down 1 |
62 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 29 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “form submission popup” for “message”. “form submission popup” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “message” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “cf7 popup”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “contact form 7 error message”. #11 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “contact form 7 popup”. #14 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 411 · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 23 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 80% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 2 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Show a beautiful, fully customizable success popup notification on Contact Form 7 submission. Control color..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 11 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 11 of 11 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("for agencies", "perfect for").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Contact Form 7.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 5,372 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("cf7 popup", "contact form 7 error message", "contact form 7 popup", "form submission popup" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-12-07 900+ → 1K+ up after 72 days in tier
- 2024-09-26 800+ → 900+ up after 43 days in tier
- 2024-08-14 700+ → 800+ up after 47 days in tier
- 2024-06-28 600+ → 700+ up after 21 days in tier
- 2024-06-07 500+ → 600+ up after 55 days in tier
- 2024-04-13 400+ → 500+ up after 61 days in tier
- 2024-02-12 300+ → 400+ up after 67 days in tier
- 2023-12-07 200+ → 300+ up after 91 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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