Contact forms, email and newsletter connections
The Form category overlaps most with contact-form and contact listings, while email and newsletter tools are also represented.
- Contact forms: The contact-form tag overlaps with 157 plugins and contact with 127; Contact Form 7 appears as a related tag for 51.
- Email and newsletters: Email overlaps with 66 plugins and newsletter with 19. Prominent names include MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress, MailerLite, and Newsletters, Email Marketing, SMS and Popups by Om.
Form builders and specialized extensions
The prominent names point to distinct form-related needs, from building forms to adding particular field and confirmation options.
- Form builders: Form Maker by 10Web, RTMForm, and HTML Forms sit alongside the form-builder tag, which overlaps with 35 plugins.
- Specialized fields: Calculated Fields Form and Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 indicate interest in calculated and conditional fields.
- Confirmation and CAPTCHA: Contact Form 7 add confirm and reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form signal confirmation and CAPTCHA-related extensions.
- Connections to other form plugins: Advanced Custom Fields: Gravity Forms Add-on reflects integrations with other form tools; the Gravity Forms tag overlaps with 31 plugins.
Adoption, ratings and update recency among prominent plugins
Install counts range from one million for MC4WP to 10,000 for HTML Forms, with several listings at or above 100,000.
MC4WP is described as among the directory’s most widely installed plugins, while MW WP Form, MailerLite, Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7, and the Om newsletter plugin are described as widely installed. Ratings range from excellent to poor or mixed, and review counts range from few to many. Several listings were updated this month or one month ago; by contrast, Contact Form 7 add confirm was last updated 105 months ago. Advanced Custom Fields: Gravity Forms Add-on was updated 11 months ago, and reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form 30 months ago.
A broad category with limited recent maintenance
With 503 plugins, the category has many listings but relatively few at the highest install thresholds, and update recency is an important point of comparison.
Five plugins have at least 100,000 installs, while 15 have at least 10,000. Just 36% of category plugins were updated in the past 12 months, so listings with recent updates sit alongside older-maintained options.