Plugin info

Total downloads: 402,622,386
Active installs: 10,000,000
Total reviews: 2,144
Average rating: 4
Support threads opened: 78
Support threads resolved: 35 (45%)
Available in: 72 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 11/30/2025 (29 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/2/2007 (18 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.7
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 29 days ago • Support resolved 45% • 2,144 reviews

81/100

Is Contact Form 7 abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 29 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.7
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Description

Contact Form 7 is a plugin designed to be a practical tool for all WordPress users who embrace the philosophy of free and open source software. It employs sophisticatedly modularized architecture and its original Schema-Woven Validation technology.

Docs and support

You can find docs, FAQ and more detailed information about Contact Form 7 on contactform7.com. When you cannot find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you cannot locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.

Contact Form 7 needs your support

It is hard to continue to maintain this plugin without support from users like you. There are several ways for you to contribute to the project: testing, coding, translating it into your local languages, helping other users, financial donations, etc, etc. We equally welcome you regardless of the way you contribute.

Privacy notices

With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:

  • track users by stealth;
  • write any user personal data to the database;
  • send any data to external servers;
  • use cookies.

If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is recommended. These features include:

Installation

  1. Upload the entire contact-form-7 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen (Plugins > Installed Plugins).

You will find Contact menu in your WordPress admin screen.

For basic usage, have a look at the plugin’s website.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have questions or issues with Contact Form 7? Use these support channels appropriately.

  1. Docs
  2. FAQ
  3. Support forum

Support

Review feed

Mitch
3/16/2017

Recommended.

I recommend this plugin. It's easy to use, both technical and non-technical and, most importantly, works as expected.
themerex
12/16/2022

Update 5.7.1 continues to wrap markup inside and

Unlike version 5.6.4 [ prnt.sc/6jnDIye9Dva4 ], update 5.7.1 continues to wrap "p" markup inside "div" and "td" [ prnt.sc/N7I5StxLCtVy ]. It breaks the appearance of the forms.
Pagecode
3/16/2023

This has never failed

super reliable!
Oliver Campion
4/15/2023

Our go-to form plugin

We've been using this plugin for years with many clients. What we like about it is that if things go awry, it's almost always not the plugin that's caused the issue but instead the mail sending setup on the Wordpress installation. We also like that the plugin sporadically asks the admin to check / validate the forms for any issues.
KNEET
4/24/2023

Must have

It's a must have tool. We use it all the time in our agency!

Screenshots

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Changelog

For more information, see Releases.

6.1.4

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-614/

6.1.3

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-613/

6.1.2

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-612/

6.1.1

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-611/

6.1

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-61/

6.0.5

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-605/

6.0.4

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-604/

6.0.3

  • Updates the copyright year to 2025.
  • Updates the “Contact Form 7 needs your support” message content.
  • Updates the Constant Contact deprecation warning.

6.0.2

  • Removes unnecessary type declaration from nullable arguments to avoid deprecation warnings in PHP 8.4.

6.0.1

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-601/

6.0

https://contactform7.com/contact-form-7-60/