65
Message Bridge for Contact Form 7 and Telegram
Quick setup meets the heartbreak of broken updates.
HealthyDeclining
65/100
The simple setup is great until an update breaks your settings and stops all messages.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.3★
21 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-14%
Declining
38 → 33 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
Declining · -14% in the last year
38/day a year ago→33/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMessage Bridge for Contact Form 7 and Telegram is praised for its simplicity, quick setup and reliable core features, but users repeatedly report that updates often break the integration, wiping settings and stopping messages.
What people like
- +Easy to use and simple setup×3
- +Works reliably after initial configuration×4
- +Quick (2-minute) setup
- +Clean, modern codebase
- +Lightweight plugin
- +Parses HTML tags into Markdown for Telegram messages
- +Supports shortcodes for easy integration
- +Can filter out unnecessary emails before sending to Telegram
- +Responsive developer support
Common complaints
- −Plugin updates frequently break functionality, causing loss of settings, missing bots/chats, removed shortcodes, and stopped message delivery×5
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.71★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 33%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 21 total
Latest reviews · 21 analyzed
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Нужный плагин. НО! только старая версия ))moytopcom
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Плагін перестав працювати після оновленняsergion1-shot
- 2026-03-30★★★★★После обновления не работаетdeus17251-shot
- 2026-03-04★★★★★Shortcode removed without migrationKosTeams
- 2026-01-29★★★★★очень крутой плагинaminoza1-shot
- 2025-04-23★★★★★Спасибоfavoritlab
- 2025-03-28★★★★★It works great!blinmen1-shot
- 2024-12-19★★★★★Спасибо за полезный плагин!iforgotmypassword
- 2024-03-15★★★★★Удобно, функциональноoriginalsam
- 2021-07-16★★★★★Огоньromanavr1-shot
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.
35
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
29
Prior 7-day baseline
36
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
498
Mean release-day peak (30d)
54
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+20.7%
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
2.05
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
33%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.33 → 4.71★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered