Simple Email Form
by Sean Newby · Forms
Simple Email Form creates a simple email contact form to your WordPress site.
45 health vs 64 average across 978 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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 3404 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
21
now · peak 62
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-01-23 40+ → 30+ down after 21 days in band
- 2025-01-02 50+ → 40+ down after 239 days in band
- 2024-05-08 60+ → 50+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-05-05 50+ → 60+ up after 75 days in band
- 2024-02-20 60+ → 50+ down after 256 days in band
- 2023-06-09 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-06-08 60+ → 70+ up after 8 days in band
- 2023-05-31 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Contact Form Email 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
VS Contact Form 7K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
Contact Form Query 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A - C Contact Form 7 add confirm 50K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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