59
Styler Mate for Contact Form 7
Pretty forms that might cost you your trust.
HealthyDecliningPoor rating
59/100
Styling is easy for Divi users but recent paywalls and breakage have caused significant frustration.
Active installs
~80,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
3.9★
46 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-21%
Declining
105 → 83 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.81★
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
Declining · -21% in the last year
105/day a year ago→83/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayStyler Mate for Contact Form 7 (formerly "Divi Contact Form 7") is well-liked for making CF7 forms easy to style within Divi, but has attracted serious criticism over features being locked behind a paywall after a rebranding, breakage introduced in version 2.0, and intrusive admin advertisements.
What people like
- +Makes styling Contact Form 7 forms in Divi significantly easier and more visually appealing×5
- +Generally easy to use with good functionality×3
- +Older versions (specifically 1.2.6) worked reliably and were considered excellent
Common complaints
- −Previously free features (e.g. CF7 grid/shortcode layout builder) were locked behind a paid upgrade after a rebranding, with no communication from the developer (since 2.0)×3
- −Version 2.0 introduced widespread breakage and errors (since 2.0)×2
- −Plugin broke websites on some WordPress setups, with no clear fix provided×2
- −Admin dashboard spam/advertisements from the developer×2
- −Specific frontend bugs reported: submit button styling not applying, and page scrolling to top when clicking inside a field
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.81★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.90★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 46 total
Latest reviews · 46 analyzed
- 2026-05-17★★★★★Genialsanty45
- 2026-03-27★★★★★c superliyo401001-shot
- 2025-12-18★★★★★So handyBrian
- 2025-11-18★★★★★Good for Divi Usersaeawebmaster
- 2025-11-02★★★★★Funciona 10, queda super bienasesoriateleco
- 2024-11-28★★★★★Removed best featureDaniel Proczko
- 2024-11-28★★★★★Took Away an Implemented Featureflintflux
- 2024-11-28★★★★★Whatever you do, do NOT upgrade from version 1.2.6axxies
- 2023-12-21★★★★★Broken Now?imaginaut
- 2023-03-28★★★★★Beautiful…crzyhrse
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor 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.
83
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
83
Prior 7-day baseline
86
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
7,718
Mean release-day peak (30d)
801
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
0.0%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.13
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
67%
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
3.89 → 3.81★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered