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Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension
It gives your Contact Form 7 a smart memory boost.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
It reliably extends Contact Form 7 with dynamic field capabilities and maintains a solid reputation.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.7★
100 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
285 → 330 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 · +16% in the last year
285/day a year ago→330/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCF7 Dynamic Text Extension is a well-regarded, long-standing utility plugin for Contact Form 7 that reliably handles dynamic field population, though an older period of poor support responsiveness drew criticism from at least one user.
What people like
- +Works reliably out of the box for dynamic field population, including current URL and shortcode-based values×6
- +Support quality praised as fast, thorough, and proactive — including weekend availability×3
- +Active development under new ownership, with bugs fixed and updates released quickly after reports×2
- +Extensible — users can add their own custom functions on top of the plugin
Common complaints
- −A period of poor support responsiveness was reported, with no issues resolved out of 7 in the prior two months
- −Does not support user-input-driven dynamic field filling (e.g. auto-populating a second field based on what a user types into a first)
- −At least one user found the plugin's value proposition unclear
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.61★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 43% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 100 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-06-28★★★★★Great PluginHans-Gerd Gerhards
- 2024-09-01★★★★★Essentialposed
- 2024-09-01★★★★★DYNAMIC Lead FunnelsMove Me To
- 2024-09-01★★★★★Really usefull pluginariom06
- 2023-08-19★★★★★Great support: detailed and fastJos Klever
- 2023-07-21★★★★★Simple and useful plugin for CF7, works perfectlyuaoh
- 2023-07-15★★★★★Just perfect, lightweight solution…Peter
- 2023-01-26★★★★★New lifedaymobrew
- 2021-11-21★★★★★okwarcher
- 2021-04-09★★★★★Works well with shortcodes. Thanks!hotwebideas
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.
315
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
307
Prior 7-day baseline
211
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
315
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+2.6%
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.
43%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.17
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.63 → 4.61★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered