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Advanced Contact form 7 DB
A helpful database tool that might just crash your entire website.
HealthyGrowing
79/100
Users value the database storage but fear the fatal errors caused by recent updates.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.5★
43 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+48%
Growing fast
256 → 379 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +48% in the last year
256/day a year ago→379/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Contact Form 7 DB is a well-liked utility for storing and exporting CF7 submissions locally, but it has a history of breaking updates and unresolved bugs that have taken sites offline.
What people like
- +Stores CF7 form submissions locally in the database, which users find valuable×3
- +Excel/spreadsheet export functionality is appreciated when it works×2
- +Described as simple and easy to use×3
- +Supports column hiding and entry editing in the database view
- +Provides hooks that allow customization (e.g. unsubscribe functionality)
Common complaints
- −A recent update caused fatal PHP errors that took multiple sites completely offline×2
- −Fatal PHP error related to a missing Freemius file (class-fs-garbage-collector.php) crashes WordPress entirely
- −Excel export broken and non-functional for some users, with no support response×2
- −PHP fatal error when exporting to Excel due to deprecated curly brace syntax in PHPExcel library
- −No column sorting in the database table view×2
- −Support/developer does not respond to inquiries×2
- −No documentation provided
- −Attachment saving to folder broken on WordPress 5.7.2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.45★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 43 total
Latest reviews · 43 analyzed
- 2025-02-19★★★★★Carefull with updatesrimotevst
- 2025-02-19★★★★★Fatal Error after Updategrema
- 2024-09-14★★★★★Table List Show from Menu ClickRasel Khan
- 2023-09-04★★★★★niceandrew17091-shot
- 2023-06-14★★★★★Did not workjcax2
- 2023-06-02★★★★★PHP error, when exporting to excelJayesh Chopda
- 2023-01-03★★★★★No documentationharrdeepverma
- 2022-05-12★★★★★export to excel impossibleorangesunshine
- 2022-01-28★★★★★Parfaittripot
- 2021-10-05★★★★★Very helpful pluginandygk
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Advanced Contact form 7 DB
Top Forms plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
315
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
370
Prior 7-day baseline
256
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,851
Mean release-day peak (30d)
315
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.43
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.49 → 4.45★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered