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Save and Continue Link Recovery for Gravity Forms

by lelandf · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 730+ installs across the portfolio →

If a Gravity Forms form submitter loses their "Save and Continue" Link, this will help you recover it.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, 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.

29 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2986 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

+36% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

156

now · peak 197

15430d 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

Save and Continue Li · #9879 you گرویتی فرم فارسی · #1205 GravityExport Lite f · #1689 Surbma · #2248

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.

385per 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

8.2y ago

latest release · v1.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 8.2y 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.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈490

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

Install history · since 2022-05-12 · 1,421 observations

400Installs · 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
2.0
Last updated
8.2y ago
Added
2017-05-08 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. vickifarmer
    3.5y ago

    Very cool. Just saved me from having to sift through the DB to save a user’s bacon.

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  2. Matt Scheidler
    4.0y ago

    Despite the plugin not having been updated in 4 years, I just tried it and it worked perfectly. I was able to retrieve the GF Token for someone who’d saved a form but lost the link. Just thought I’d share that it still works on WP 6.0.1 and GF 2.6.5.

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  3. Tessa Watkins
    5.5y ago

    I was hesitant to use this because it is an old plugin that doesn’t seem to be maintained (hasn’t been updated in 3 years), but I really needed the functionality like right now and didn’t have the time to develop it myself. I glossed over the single PHP file that makes this plugin and they made it rather “future-proof” so it still works today without breaking the site. Until Gravity Forms changes their database table name from “gf_draft_submissions” or any of its column keys from “form_id”, “date_created”, “email”, “IP”, “uuid”, or “source_url”, this plugin will continue to work to give site admins the ability to recover those lost links for people when they visit the admin page at /wp-admin/tools.php?page=save-and-continue-link-recovery

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  4. rmsummers
    6.2y ago

    Great utility works in 5.4.2

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  5. mcgeorge312
    7.5y ago

    Great plugin. Thank you for adding it to the repository sir. I do appreciate it.

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  6. Nethers Web Design
    9.0y ago

    We use this plugin to recover partially saved applications on our extremely long 18 page application. It’s quite the application, so if you get half way and lose it, most will give up if they can’t recover. This is a needed addition.

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  7. mikecron
    9.3y ago

    Excellent plugin providing critically necessary functionality. We’ve got a client with a very long multi-page form requiring collection of documents and a bit of research on behalf of the visitor, making the Save and Continue functionality very handy. But many users would not understand the critical last step of saving the retrieval link or emailing it to themselves, and they’d be stuck (or worse, complain that the form is broken). This plugin has allowed our client to offer some assistance to those poor folks, instead of feeling helpless. Leland, it would be awesome if you could choose a merge field on the display page — that way we can thumb through the fields that have been filled out, making it easier to recognize the partial submission we’re after. If a visitor hasn’t filled out their email address on the recovery screen, we only have IP to go on (and most clients don’t know what to do with that). Thanks for a great plugin!

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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. 2025-04-20 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-04-19 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-04-17 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2025-04-14 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-04-12 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-04-07 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-04-06 500+ → 400+ down after 10 days in tier
  8. 2025-03-27 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier

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