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CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7

Figures from the Plugin Directory Census · as of 28 Aug 2026

300,000

Active installs, lower bound

Group: 100,000 to 999,999 installs

Days since the last release

Group median: 12

3.8

out of 5, from 135 ratings

Group median: 4.7 (10+ ratings)

63.6%

Support threads marked resolved, two months

Group: 68.2%

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What is CF7 Apps and who is behind it?

CF7 Apps is a WordPress plugin in the “Security” field, made by Saad Iqbal. It has been listed in the directory since 28 Jun 2011, so for 15 years. Saad Iqbal has 13 plugins with at least 10,000 installs in the census. With 300,000 to 399,999 active installs it belongs to the 100,000 to 999,999 installs group; its last release came 22 days before the reference date, and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.

This is how the author describes the plugin on wordpress.org:

“Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, and Redirection to Contact Form 7 with CF7 Apps, and generate forms effortlessly with AI. Improve form security, keep it light …”

Self-description on wordpress.org, retrieved on 10 Sept 2026

When was CF7 Apps last released?

The last release of CF7 Apps came 22 days before the reference date; the group median is 12 days.

Each dot is a plugin in the 100,000 to 999,999 installs group, placed horizontally by days since its last release, on a logarithmic scale. The dashed line marks 365 days.

How many installs does CF7 Apps have?

CF7 Apps had 300,000 to 399,999 active installs on the reference date. Within its group, 88 plugins had a higher band and 50 plugins the same band.

The API reports installs only as a lower bound with one significant figure: 300,000 means at least 300,000 and at most 399,999.

Which WordPress version is CF7 Apps tested with?

No directory notice: tested up to WordPress 7.0, while core stood at 7.1 on the reference date. The notice appears once the field falls below 6.9; that applied to 8.0% of the group.

How does CF7 Apps compare with its group?

The group holds 399 listed plugins. 61.4% of them had a more recent last release than CF7 Apps; 5.3% had no release for more than 365 days.

Figure	CF7 Apps	Group, 399 plugins
Days since the last release	22	median 12
Rating	3.8 (135)	median 4.7 (10+ ratings)
Support threads marked resolved	63.6%	68.2%
Tested up to	7.0	47.6% on 7.1
Requires PHP	7.4	most often 7.4 (41.6%)

All values on the reference date

Slug	`contact-form-7-honeypot`
Author	Saad Iqbal
Active installs	300,000 to 399,999
Last release	22 days before the reference date
Tested up to	WordPress 7.0 · core on the reference date: 7.1
Requires WordPress	6.7
Requires PHP	7.4
Rating	3.8 out of 5 from 135 ratings
Support threads, two months	7 of 11 marked resolved
Listed since	28 Jun 2011
Total downloads	6,503,770, updates included
Tags	anti-spam, captcha, cf7-database, honeypot, spam-protection

Tag	Plugins with 10,000+ installs and this tag	Rank by installs	Median days since release
anti-spam	11	4	14
captcha	22	2	15
cf7-database	2	2	15
honeypot	8	1	12
spam-protection	10	4	26

Class of 2011

CF7 Apps has been listed since 28 Jun 2011. Of the 107 plugins with 10,000+ installs added in 2011, 79.4% released within the 365 days before the reference date.

Same group, shared tags

Not a recommendation; the same figures for comparison. Alphabetical.

Plugin	Active installs	Last release	Rating
Advanced Google reCAPTCHA	200,000 to 299,999	13 days before the reference date	4.8 (430)
Antispam Bee	700,000 to 799,999	5 days before the reference date	4.8 (226)
CAPTCHA 4WP	100,000 to 199,999	3 days before the reference date	3.2 (269)
Captcha Code	100,000 to 199,999	12 days before the reference date	3.9 (35)
CloudSecure WP Security	100,000 to 199,999	1 day before the reference date	5.0 (2)
Database Addon for Contact Form 7	600,000 to 699,999	8 days before the reference date	5.0 (1,874)
Gravity Forms Zero Spam	100,000 to 199,999	14 days before the reference date	4.3 (24)
Login Lockdown & Protection	100,000 to 199,999	12 days before the reference date	4.3 (60)

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hafenstudios (2026): CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7, profile in the Plugin Directory Census 01/2026, reference date 28 Aug 2026. https://hafenstudios.com/en/census/plugins/contact-form-7-honeypot/

Source and status

All values come from the full pull of the public wordpress.org API on 28 Aug 2026 (reference time 21:56:30 UTC). The analysis and text on this page are available under CC BY 4.0; the raw values come from the public wordpress.org API and are in the raw data. How the count was made is set out in the method, what the fields do not say under limits. hafenstudios builds WordPress plugins itself, see the conflict of interest. Corrections to moin@hafenstudios.com; a documented correction leads to a new version. From issue 02 this page will also show the change since the previous reference date. Collected and prepared by Horst Wenzel.

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