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Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Forms
It makes long forms manageable but keeps the best tricks behind a gate.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
This plugin adds useful multi-step features to Contact Form 7 despite some technical bugs and paywall friction.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.2★
49 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+10%
Growing
163 → 180 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 · +10% in the last year
163/day a year ago→180/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayContact Form 7 Multi-Step Forms is generally well-regarded as a straightforward, reliable add-on for Contact Form 7 users, though it carries complaints about paywalled features, documentation gaps, and past PHP compatibility breakage.
What people like
- +Works reliably out of the box for users already familiar with Contact Form 7×7
- +Easy to set up once the instructions are followed carefully×5
- +Free version is functional and sufficient for core use cases×2
- +Responsive author support when issues arise
Common complaints
- −Setup can be difficult for users new to Contact Form 7, with limited documentation×3
- −Key features locked behind a paid version, which users find frustrating×2
- −PHP compatibility issues caused severe WordPress errors on updates
- −Example code in documentation reported as incorrect
- −File attachment functionality does not work
- −Cache settings not available in the free version
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.19★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 2%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
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 49 total
Latest reviews · 49 analyzed
- 2025-03-28★★★★★Cool!!febsen
- 2024-12-02★★★★★We are very satisfiedIKET
- 2023-09-04★★★★★Fantastic!berlinetta
- 2022-11-10★★★★★Yes!iq145
- 2022-10-05★★★★★Great Pluginlukenc
- 2021-12-02★★★★★Awesome plugin!solanum
- 2021-09-18★★★★★Works as expectedjonny-s
- 2021-09-07★★★★★Why Trust them With Money if Their Examples are Completely Wrong?seanlazenby
- 2021-07-21★★★★★Does what it needs to do.Chris J. Zähller
- 2021-03-18★★★★★Simple, useful, powerful but could work betterAlexander Guskov
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.
186
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
198
Prior 7-day baseline
148
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
252
Mean release-day peak (30d)
186
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.1%
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
3.21
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
71%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.20 → 4.19★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered