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Contact Form 7 is a free open-source WordPress plugin that manages multiple contact forms with custom markup and submission handling.[1][2]
Streamline communication on your WordPress site with Contact Form 7. This versatile plugin allows you to create and manage multiple contact forms with ease. Featuring Ajax-powered submissions for a smooth user experience, CAPTCHA for security, and Akismet integration for spam filtering, Contact Form 7 provides a robust solution for all your contact form needs.
Contact Form 7 belongs toForm buildersWordPress pluginscategories.
70websites
use it — 2.7% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months
#4of 104
tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 313)
14public pages
on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing
In short: A dependable and unencumbered form solution for WordPress sites, suited for developers comfortable configuring forms with text markup.[1]
- 4.0 / 5from 2,183 ratings for Contact Form 7 on WordPress.org plugin directory[3]
2.78% of all websites we track run Contact Form 7▲ 0.02 points since 20 Sep
Should you use Contact Form 7?
The 10-second version, from the vendor’s own pages and what we see in our scans
Products
In the vendor’s own words
Contact Form 7
This pageCore form management plugin providing flexible markup and automated submission delivery.[2]
Flamingo
Companion plugin for storing contact form submissions and messages in the WordPress database.[2]
Bogo
Multilingual extension providing clean language switching for WordPress content and forms.[2]
Contact Form 7 versions
The newest release, the series that still gets fixes, and what changed
Maintained series
6
What Contact Form 7 sites add on top
How many of the 70 Contact Form 7 sites we scanned also run each tool, grouped by what the tool does
Analytics
Google Analytics
Site Kit
Facebook PixelTag manager
Google Tag ManagerSearch visibility
Yoast SEOPage builder
ElementorMarketing
HubSpotLive chat
WhatsApp Business ChatThe full bar means every Contact Form 7 site. A site can run several tools for one job, so the shares of tools in one group can add up to more than 100%.
How Contact Form 7 sites protect themselves
Share of the 70 sites we scanned that run each protection
reCAPTCHA34% · 24 sitesreCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS
Protections add up, they do not replace each other: a site can run all of them.
What sites use Contact Form 7 for
An estimate from UptimeCard's technology map of 14 public sites
exalate.com · gocache.com.br · lusha.com
abeta.co.uk · multivende.com · myfitapp.com
cloudways.com · semaphoreci.com
Rough guide, not a measurement: each description is written automatically from the site’s technology stack and the site has not confirmed it. A site is counted once, in the first group its description fits (shop, help and docs, blog, marketing site; otherwise the whole site). Descriptions that only guess (“likely”, “may”) are left out.
At a glance
UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly
How Contact Form 7 sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details
Page load time
Loads about as fast as the average site
Most Contact Form 7 sites load in 3.8–6.6 s. Home page weight: 4.7 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 12 public sites measured.
Who uses it?
Business Services sites use Contact Form 7 3.6× more than average
Share of 14 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.
How Contact Form 7 sites are built
Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Contact Form 7 sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.
Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)15×Site Kit13×
LiteSpeed10×
OWL Carousel8×
Hostinger8×Elementor8×Yoast SEO7×WhatsApp Business Chat5×
jQuery UI5×Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Contact Form 7 on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 70 Contact Form 7 sites that run the whole stack.
Contact Form 7 + Yoast SEO + Bootstrap + cdnjs
Contact Form 7 + Yoast SEO + wpBakery
Contact Form 7 + Yoast SEO + WP Rocket
Contact Form 7 + Yoast SEO + YouTube
Contact Form 7 + Elementor + Site Kit + RankMath SEO
Contact Form 7 + Elementor + Slider Revolution + GSAP
Contact Form 7 + Site Kit + Slider Revolution
Contact Form 7 + Site Kit + GSAP
Contact Form 7 + Elementor + Sectigo
Contact Form 7 + Site Kit + Sectigo
Contact Form 7 + GSAP + Google Maps
Similar tools in its category
Form builders: 313 tools known, 104 seen in our scans
Max Mega Menu29 sitesAlternative
Divi17 sitesAlternative
Draftpress HFCM17 sitesAlternative
Popup Maker17 sitesAlternative
Gravity Forms13 sitesAlternative
WPForms13 sitesAlternative
Autoptimize12 sitesAlternative
Gutenberg12 sitesAlternativeYoast SEO230 sitesUsed togetherElementor116 sitesUsed togetherWP Rocket81 sitesUsed togetherSite Kit66 sitesUsed togetherHow websites combine Contact Form 7 with other tools
Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.
Who is behind Contact Form 7
From its own pages and public records, with sources
Developed by
Rock Lobster Inc.[2]
Its story
2009
Deployed version 2.0.7 in 2009 with expanded form validation hooks and captcha cleanup routines.[4]
2014
Modernized administrative form management with the release of version 4.0 in 2014.[5]
2018
Strengthened automated spam protection in 2018 with improved server-side reCAPTCHA verification.[6]
2020
Issued critical security hardening update 5.3.2 across the WordPress plugin directory in 2020.[7]
2024
Adopted modern block and script conventions with the major version 6.0 release in 2024.[8]
2026
Delivered version 6.2.3 in 2026 with refined validation routines and core compatibility fixes.[1]
Questions about Contact Form 7
- How many websites use Contact Form 7?
- We found Contact Form 7 on 70 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (2.7%). 14 of them have a public status page.
- What is Contact Form 7 often used with?
- Among the websites we scan, Contact Form 7 is often found alongside Google Analytics (84.3% of its sites), Yoast SEO (65.7% of its sites), Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) (61.4% of its sites).
- What are the alternatives to Contact Form 7?
- Other form builders tools we recognize include Yoast SEO, Elementor, WP Rocket, Site Kit.
Is your website built with Contact Form 7?
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