Contact Form Query

64 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

A score of 45 out of 30 reflects solid adoption relative to the plugin's small niche, but 1,000 installs is tiny next to the millions that top form plugins command.

Update Freshness

25/25

A perfect 100 indicates the developer has updated recently, with a release logged on June 13, 2026, and the plugin is tested up to WordPress 7.0.

User Rating

3/15

A score of 20 out of 15 is technically above weight, but it is built on a single 100 out of 100 rating, which is statistically meaningless.

Support Health

8/15

A 50 out of 15 is misleadingly healthy looking; there are literally zero support threads opened, so there is no evidence the developer responds when users have problems.

WP Compatibility

15/15

A full 100 means the plugin declares support for WordPress 5.0 through 7.0 and PHP 7.0, which covers the vast majority of current hosts.

Scores higher than 13% of indexed plugins

About

Add a contact form and receive new message notifications directly to your WordPress admin and to your email. Search and filter messages.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-09-26 5:35am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 7.1.2

Requires PHP 7.0+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Contact Form Query adds a basic contact form to your WordPress site and sends each submission to your admin email and inbox. It also stores messages inside WordPress so you can search and filter past inquiries from the dashboard. In practice it is a simple inbox plus form combo without any visual builder or conditional logic.

Who It's For

This plugin fits very small sites or solo operators who only need a single, no-frills contact form and want submissions archived in wp-admin. It is most useful for freelancers, local businesses, or small nonprofits that do not need multi-step forms, payments, or integrations. If your needs stop at 'let visitors email me and let me search those emails later,' it does the job.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone who needs more than one form, conditional fields, file uploads, marketing integrations, anti-spam beyond basic, or reliable long-term support should skip this plugin. With only 1,000 active installs, zero support threads, and a single rating, there is no community track record to fall back on.

The Bottom Line

Contact Form Query is a tidy, recently updated plugin with a misleadingly polished overall score of 63.93 that hides very thin real-world evidence: one rating and zero support threads. The maintenance and compatibility signals are genuinely strong, but there is no community data to confirm the plugin holds up under load or that the author will help when something breaks. Treat it as a workable option for the simplest single-form site, and look at WPForms Lite or Forminator if you want proven reliability.

Pick Akismet instead if your main pain point is contact form spam, since it pairs with most form plugins rather than replacing them.

WPForms Lite 97/100

Choose WPForms Lite if you want a drag-and-drop builder, templates, and a track record of 5 million installs with active support.

WP Mail SMTP by WPForms 97/100

Reach for WP Mail SMTP when your real problem is email deliverability rather than the form itself, since it fixes WordPress mail at the server level.

Forminator Forms 94/100

Go with Forminator if you need polls, quizzes, or payment forms in addition to a contact form, all from one well-maintained plugin.

Post SMTP 91/100

Use Post SMTP as a complement, not a substitute, when you need fallback mail servers and delivery logs for the notifications this form sends.