75
weForms – Easy Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder For WordPress
A pretty builder that might ghost you when things break.
HealthyGrowing
75/100
Users love the simple interface but frequent submission errors and unresponsive support create reliability concerns.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
111 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+70%
Growing fast
40 → 68 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 · +70% in the last year
40/day a year ago→68/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayweForms is generally praised for its ease of use and basic functionality, but users frequently encounter submission bugs, poor support, and feature limitations that require the paid version.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use with an intuitive interface×2
- +Fast and efficient performance
- +Entries are stored in the plugin, allowing viewing responses without checking email
- +Each form can have its own PayPal or Stripe integration
- +Well-designed layout that is easy for simple sites
Common complaints
- −Form submissions often fail (mobile reliability, 403 errors, caching issues)×3
- −Support is unresponsive; tickets and emails go unanswered×3
- −Refund requests are ignored or delayed
- −Advanced features (e.g., styling, payment gateways) are locked behind the paid version, which many find expensive×2
- −Limited visual customization; cannot easily change colors or button styles via CSS
- −Missing support for popular payment gateways such as Razorpay
- −Form editing and adding new fields sometimes do not work
- −PHP error messages appear in logs (e.g., class-field-text.php line 35)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.45★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 111 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2024-10-31★★★★★Disappointmentjohnnywoodward
- 2024-08-02★★★★★Non-Existent Customer Caregirlinterrupting
- 2024-07-02★★★★★very versatile tool for creating formswavedoc19561-shot
- 2023-12-05★★★★★Happy with weFormsashleygrey
- 2023-09-27★★★★★Beyond uselessclockz71
- 2023-09-13★★★★★nice contact form that needs configurationsoftweave
- 2023-07-17★★★★★No Supportdetechguy
- 2023-04-15★★★★★Great Plugin!rdo992
- 2022-11-18★★★★★Errors in formsplutzmann1-shot
- 2022-10-03★★★★★wefor add field & edit fieldpaviath
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to weForms
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.
67
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
67
Prior 7-day baseline
52
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
94
Mean release-day peak (30d)
59
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.04
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
78%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.39 → 4.45★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered