Simple Contacts Manager
by Earl Evan Amante · Forms
A simple contact manager for your personal and business use.
43 health vs 63 average across 1,292 Forms plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 10+ 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4006 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2023-09-05 · 1,046 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
26
now · peak 76
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2023-09-04 · 1,042 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-23 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-21 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-19 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-17 20+ → 30+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-03-11 30+ → 20+ down after 56 days in tier
- 2026-01-14 60+ → 30+ down after 28 days in tier
- 2025-12-17 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-16 90+ → 70+ down after 29 days in tier
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