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Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More

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

300,000

Active installs, lower bound

Group: 100,000 to 999,999 installs

Day since the last release

Group median: 12

4.8

out of 5, from 1,380 ratings

Group median: 4.7 (10+ ratings)

100.0%

Support threads marked resolved, two months

Group: 68.2%

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What is Formidable Forms and who is behind it?

Formidable Forms is a WordPress plugin in the “Contact and email” field, made by Strategy11 Team. It has been listed in the directory since 12 Dec 2009, so for 16 years. Strategy11 Team has 2 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 1 day before the reference date, and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

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

“The most powerful drag and drop WordPress form builder for contact forms, payment forms, calculators, quizzes, surveys, and data-driven applications.”

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

When was Formidable Forms last released?

The last release of Formidable Forms came 1 day 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 Formidable Forms have?

Formidable Forms 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 Formidable Forms tested with?

No directory notice: tested up to WordPress 7.1, 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 Formidable Forms compare with its group?

The group holds 399 listed plugins. 1.5% of them had a more recent last release than Formidable Forms; 5.3% had no release for more than 365 days.

Figure	Formidable Forms	Group, 399 plugins
Days since the last release	1	median 12
Rating	4.8 (1,380)	median 4.7 (10+ ratings)
Support threads marked resolved	100.0%	68.2%
Tested up to	7.1	47.6% on 7.1
Requires PHP	7.0	most often 7.4 (41.6%)

All values on the reference date

Slug	`formidable`
Author	Strategy11 Team
Active installs	300,000 to 399,999
Last release	1 day before the reference date
Tested up to	WordPress 7.1 · core on the reference date: 7.1
Requires WordPress	6.3
Requires PHP	7.0
Rating	4.8 out of 5 from 1,380 ratings
Support threads, two months	7 of 7 marked resolved
Listed since	12 Dec 2009
Total downloads	27,679,376, updates included
Tags	contact-form, custom-form, form-builder, forms, payment-form

Tag	Plugins with 10,000+ installs and this tag	Rank by installs	Median days since release
contact-form	39	9	10
custom-form	16	5	8
form-builder	25	7	6
forms	33	6	10
payment-form	4	3	2

Class of 2009

Formidable Forms has been listed since 12 Dec 2009. Of the 79 plugins with 10,000+ installs added in 2009, 84.8% 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
Brevo	100,000 to 199,999	65 days before the reference date	4.1 (285)
CMB2	300,000 to 399,999	89 days before the reference date	5.0 (91)
Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7	100,000 to 199,999	11 days before the reference date	4.8 (166)
Crowdsignal Forms	200,000 to 299,999	53 days before the reference date	5.0 (3)
Fluent Forms	700,000 to 799,999	6 days before the reference date	4.8 (790)
Forminator Forms	600,000 to 699,999	1 day before the reference date	4.8 (2,117)
FormLayer	100,000 to 199,999	3 days before the reference date	not stated
HubSpot All-In-One Marketing	200,000 to 299,999	4 days before the reference date	4.3 (207)

Do you maintain Formidable Forms?

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hafenstudios (2026): Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More, profile in the Plugin Directory Census 01/2026, reference date 28 Aug 2026. https://hafenstudios.com/en/census/plugins/formidable/

Source and status

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