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Simple Email Form

by Sean Newby · Forms

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Simple Email Form creates a simple email contact form to your WordPress site.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 63 average across 1,678 Forms plugins

30+

Active installs

≈39 estimated

4.5K

Total downloads

since 2011

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+115%

56

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3449 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+115% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

56

now · peak 62

5630d 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

Simple Email Form · #24487 you Contact Form Email · #2349 VS Contact Form · #2705 Contact Form Query · #5482

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.

1.9Kper 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

9.4y ago

latest release · v2.0.4

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0.4 · 9.4y ago2.0.3 · 9.7y ago2.0.2 · 9.7y ago2.0.1 · 9.7y ago2.0 · 9.9y ago1.0.1 · 15.5y ago1.0 · 15.5y 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 “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈39

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,369 observations

30Installs · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
2.0.4
Last updated
9.4y ago
Added
2011-02-25 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
4.1
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Mike V. Gorbunov
    9.4y ago

    thank you for such a wonderful plugin. it’s so simple and works as advertised.

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  2. ★★★★★ bwaack
    9.5y ago

    Nice and clean. Simple Code fits autmatically in theme-design. Easy adjustments can be done via template-structure. Thats what I was looking for. Thanks.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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 3 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Hungarian 100%
Slovak 75%
Dutch (Formal) 25%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-01-23 40+ → 30+ down after 21 days in tier
  2. 2025-01-02 50+ → 40+ down after 239 days in tier
  3. 2024-05-08 60+ → 50+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-05-05 50+ → 60+ up after 75 days in tier
  5. 2024-02-20 60+ → 50+ down after 256 days in tier
  6. 2023-06-09 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-06-08 60+ → 70+ up after 8 days in tier
  8. 2023-05-31 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier

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